In mid-1865, his public behaviour became exasperating and embarrassing to his associates. Crawford was often irritable and some colleagues found him exasperating to work with. Altogether, Arai felt that depiction was "very fun", but still an "exasperating process". But all the exasperating uncertainty was suddenly cast aside today. Robert K. Webb said it was "both very important and extremely exasperating". Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" called the film a "leaden, clotted, exasperating mess". "Compute!'s Gazette" in 1986 called "Ballyhoo" "richly evocative, often exasperating, and very clever". Something lovely and exasperating is forever in formation there. According to a biographer, Fellini found school "exasperating" and, in one year, had 67 absences. We had a new label, Hollywood Records, which proved to be, at best, exasperating.