As with so much about Twitter, which has gone from media darling to whipping boy at warp speed, the promise still outweighs the reality.

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But Candy knew that this boy was neither sweet nor darling, and probably never had been.

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He clearly cares deeply about the title character (Vincent Gallo), a writer living in Buenos Aires, who had been the darling, and is now the whipping boy, of a dominant local critic.

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