Delirious
Grade: C

Spoofing the paparazzi and idiot celebrities is the artistic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel, which makes writer-director Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion) the real fool for missing so many easy targets. Steve Buscemi plays a struggling photographer who unwittingly helps a young homeless man (Michael Pitt) ascend to stardom. It’s always fun to watch Buscemi in his ratty wiseass mode, and Alison Lohman and Gina Gershon make the best of their paper-thin characters. But most of the jokes are stale, especially all the unfounded speculations that Pitt’s character is gay.