Listen - this whole "comparison" thing? He's doing it to hurt you, because he can sense down in his Pepe LePew bones that the power is shifting, and this is obviously a...well, one hesitates to use the word "man"...a Frenchified-vaguely-male-like-humanoid who is Way Deep into the worst kind of Hollywood Hanger-On Power Trip. Lame-a**. You'll write the next blockbuster Hwood roman a-clef, appear on "Oprah," and he'll be sitting at one of the not-so-close-to-the-pool tables at the Polo trying to convince people that the Shmedlap character is "really based on him."
The guy's a tool. In fact, he's a wedge - which any high school junior can tell you is the simplest of tools.