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Anne McGuire exposes the media mannerisms of the Kennedy era through a desperate and nostalgic cabaret act in l am Crazy and You're Not Wrong. Her off-key per­formance is brilliantly nuanced, her posturing as sophisticated as Cindy Sherman and Sandra Bernhard. The singer's frantic loneliness conspires with the minimalistic production values and the tinned applause to evoke the basement world of Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy (1983). A finely honed blend of camp and melancholia, the slow release of the bite-back lyric is something to behold.