Word: spoofing
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...with a glass of Scotch in his hand and an empty New York City hotel suite at his disposal, seems relaxed. Not just for the moment but in life. Even his failure to win a 2004 Oscar for Lost in Translation was, he insists, no big deal. (As a spoof of his supposed disappointment over losing the Best Actor award to Sean Penn, Murray appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman a few weeks later, wearing his tuxedo while rolling in a gutter.) By then, Murray had begun work on The Life Aquatic, which opened to mixed reviews...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to François Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
...DUNGEON, VOL.2, "THE BARBARIAN PRINCESS" By Lewis Trondheim & Joann Sfar Part duex of the Dungeon series continues the horror and fantasy spoof by two of France's best cartoonists...
...anticipation of the 1974 Harvard-Yale Game, The Crimson published this article, detailing past efforts of The Crimson and the Yale Daily News (YDN) to spoof their sister publications. On the day of the 1974 Game, the YDN distributed fake Crimsons throughout Harvard dining halls claiming a huge drop in Harvard’s endowment. The plot was foiled in advance by a tip from an Associated Press reporter, and the issues were promptly removed...
White Chicks is certainly not a clever spoof, like Scary Movie, but is a worthwhile watch, if only to see grown men struggle with head tosses and g-strings. The most annoying aspect of the movie is the near impossibility in distinguishing the leads from another when in full makeup. But then again, our homogenized white society is the entire basis for this send...