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...Vries relies on literary parody, verbal burlesque and a baleful eye for "life-styles." The result is a deftly improvised confusion in which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...
Spinal Tap? There is no such beast. 1 his movie is merely the newest send-up the most passionate putdown, of pop culture's twin inanities: inept musicians and their earnest hagiographers. As conceived and improvised by Christopher Guest (Nigel), Michael McKean (David) Rob Reiner (Marty) and Harry Shearer .Derek Smalls, the band's gnomish bass player), the imaginary band members make up in narcotic solemnity what they lack in talent. Onstage, they steal ntts from Boccherini and Chuck Berry they re-enact the creation of the world and send costumed dwarfs capering around a tiny replica...
...ideas of independence were more daring. Before shipping off to Majorca with Graves, she fell in love with an Irish journalist named Phibbs. The "strange Trinity" (Nancy, Laura and Robert) became a stranger quartet. Even the gallant and scrupulous biographer cannot prevent the arrangement from sounding like a send-up of The Edge of Night. When Phibbs rejected Riding, she swallowed Lysol and jumped from a fourth-story window. A horrified Robert leaped after her, but not before running down to the third floor. Laura sustained fractures of the spine and pelvis. Robert, with the luck of those pure souls...
Welcome to Off the Wall Street Journal, a wickedly effective parody of the U.S.'s leading business newspaper. Modeled after a 1980 send-up of the New York Times, (called Not the New York Times) and put together by former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra, along with a coterie of co-editors, mostly recent graduates of the University of Chicago, Off the Wall Street Journal will go on sale April 1 with an initial press run of 500,000 copies. The 24-page broadsheet will be distributed by Warner Publisher Services to newsstands in 75 cities and to retail...
...Henry Miller, S.J. Perelman and Walt Whitman had holed up in a Michigan roadhouse to concoct a mystery yarn, the resulting melange of cosmic erotica, snappish humor and hirsute lyricism might resemble this send-up of the "tecs" by Poet and Novelist Jim Harrison (Farmer, Legends of the Fall). His mock hero, Johnny Lundgren, nicknamed Warlock, is a reluctant Swedish-American gumshoe who has been fired from his job as a foundation executive. He flees to the comforting semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays...