Word: sideshow
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...writers are. "There are jokes you won't get," says Groening, "unless you've actually attended a few classes in college." Lit. 101 will teach you that Lisa's poetry is inspired by Allen Ginsberg's and that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told the writers, "it's an hommage...
When the play opens, the identity of the founding father is assumed by a "foundling father," an Black man who plays Lincoln as sideshow entertainment. The Foundling Father, calling himself the lesser known, plays The Greater Man, the president Abraham Lincoln...
...parties. (Scalping by the Mexicans, that is; the practice, we are told, was only later appropriated by the Indians in retaliation.) The film has an elegiac tone, opening at a Fourth of July celebration in 1905 attended by an old, sad-eyed Geronimo, by then something of a historical sideshow attraction. In flashbacks we see the education of a rebel, a young warrior who turns vengeful after his wife and baby are killed in a massacre by Mexican troops. A whiff of political correctness hangs over the show, as does some needlessly stilted dialogue ("The one who was my father...
...think that at this point we've givenmuch consideration to disciplinary action,"Nishnic said in an interview yesterday. "Anythinglike that is a sideshow to the central issuehere...
...remarks, the notion of civil rights for homosexuals would indeed sound laughable after all, why should a collection of irresponsible thespians, bon-mot formulators and civilization-haters demand legal protection because of an identity based on these very traits? They function usefully, Mansfield generously concedes, as society's sideshow freaks, but that's simply not a good enough reason to assure their civil rights...