![]() ![]() Gone is the book’s fickle, possibly amnesiac, definitely disturbed main character, replaced by a lovably overconfident road-trip warrior, a dynamo played to perfection by George Clooney. The rather whiny tone of Walter Kirn’s “Up in the Air” vanishes in Jason Reitman’s extreme makeover of this travelogue comedy about a guy who traipses across America, firing people for a living while greedily counting the miles built up in his frequent-flyer program. On rare occasions, putting a novel through the Hollywood wringer does the story a real service. ![]()
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