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It’s in his cocky but effete delivery, the same vocal quality I heard when theater queens debated who was the superior Mame at West Village gay bars.

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“I’ll go after him for being ‘this effete knower of arcane knowledge, who knows little tidbits that no one would care about.’

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Perfetti gives him an effete contemporaneity, but the character needs new lines more than a new look.

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Mr. Zeman, a rambunctious, old-school politician with a knack for connecting with ordinary people, delights in offending effete liberal sensibilities and conventional wisdom.

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Funny, frail, effete, Bettany’s Warhol is as meticulously impersonal as his art, and my goodness he whines.

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