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Man of the Year (1995 film)
''Man of the Year'' (1995) is a mockumentary written and directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. The film is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as ''Playgirl'' magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like ''Donahue'', ''The Maury Povich Show'' and ''The Jerry Springer Show'' (along with an early appearance on ''Dance Fever'') and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a ''Playgirl'' reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story.
==Critical response==
''Variety'' gave ''Man of the Year'' a generally favorable review, calling the film "pleasant to watch and intermittently clever." However, it notes that Shafer's writing is "uneven" and that the film's "structure is a bit repetitive."〔 ''The New Yorker'' largely concurred, noting that Shafer "keep() condescension at bay with some nice comic spins" but finding the use of the death of Shafer's friend as Shafer's catalyst for coming out to be self-serving. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' was far harsher, deriding the film as a "vanity" production and complaining "There's no shape to ''Man of the Year'', no forward movement. ''Man of the Year'' doesn't even have the benefit of being hip." The ''New York Times'', however, found the film "gently satirical" with the use of real clips from Shafer's various talk show appearances creating a "tone of vertiginous loopiness."〔 The ''Times'' also saw the metaphor in Shafer's experience to the pressure that society put on gay people to pretend to be straight.
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