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...snapped up by a publisher if Stevens weren't doing it himself. Set in Boston's unique oasis for over-educated, self-involved, post-graduate do-nothings (I should know, I was one of them), the book reads as both a slice of life story and comic send-up. The story takes place over two hot summer days when Ingrid, a young woman whose mind is "wired for self-destruct," according to her girlfriend, runs into Mark, her cheating ex-boyfriend. Mark invites her to hang out with his friends the following evening, and Ingrid, who has a boyfriend, hedges...
...Desperate Housewives. What do you make of the show's success? Some people are watching it because they think it's a soap. That's why I'm attracted to it--it's a send-up of a genre of television...
...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good...
...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good...
...Trey Parker and Matt Stone production Team America: World Police is a delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofing every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets. Unlike most politically-motivated comedies these days, there’s no clear slant towards either the left or the right. Team America is a throwback to the kind of movie that casts the establishment as the good guy and everyone who goes...