Word: spoofing
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Quasha decided to just tell the recruiter that he has produced a B-movie, called Tromio and Juliet, a sex and violence-filled spoof on the Shakespeare play that is available in the "cult section" of the Garage. He also told the recruiter that he plays a lot of poker and blackjack...
...employees from writing an expose of what really happens behind the scenes at the Oprah Winfrey show. Ironic, of course, since Oprah championed free speech when she was sued by those Texas cattle ranchers a couple of years back... Everyone's buzzing about this Saturday's SNL that'll spoof Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John -- and there's a nasty little rumor that Celine Dion might come out of retirement for one last show... Who will play Spiderman? Director Sam Raimi is casting the picture for Columbia and rumors suggest that either Leo DiCaprio, Heath Ledger or Jude...
...cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain's Word," a spoof on Wayne's World, jousting knights representing phonemes (sn and ooze for example) collide to make words (snooze for example...
...most watched video clip of the past few months, for instance, is a parody of the Budweiser "Wassup?" ads. The Net spoof (which you can see at www.adcritic.com features the Superfriends. While the author is listed as "Unknown," the bit was actually created by a sitcom writer from That '70s Show, Phillip Stark, 27, and animator Graham Robertson, 26. Now they're trying to leverage it as a pitch for a sitcom about superheroes hanging around and whining like Friends characters. They're not pitching it to Hollywood studios, though; they're actually going on a pitch meeting...
...Firth (Mr. Darcy on TV's "Pride and Prejudice"), the author exaggerates it by giving Bridget an over-the-top interview opportunity with the man himself (part of the in-joke is that Bridget is writing for the Independent, the same newspaper where Bridget herself was created in a spoof column by Fielding). Bridget falling over herself to ask Firth about the diving scene in Pride and Prejudice ("what I mean is did you ever have to take the shirt off and... and put another one on?") is yet another laugh-out-loud moment. And Bridget achieves success...