Word: spoofing
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...best-selling porn tape of all time, with more than 200,000 copies sold. After the success of Boogie Nights and The People vs. Larry Flynt, a rash of producers--even Ron Howard--tried to put together movies about the porn industry. Next month Orgazmo, a porn-industry spoof by South Park co-creator Trey Parker, will be released, with a sizable part for fat, hirsute porn star Ron Jeremy. Jeremy, easily the most recognizable figure in adult filmdom, exploits his fame better than anyone, branding his fat, hirsute face on cigars, beer, Porn-Star brand T shirts...
...says they were in a box he bought at a flea market. He has supplied some to a few publications (including the New York Post, inset) in hopes of selling more. He has had many offers, largely on the basis that Schrimm and others think Marilyn was trying to spoof Jackie Kennedy. But Kenneth Battelle, the hairdresser on the shoot, which was for Vogue, says she wasn't. "I would have refused to do that," he says. The controversy's not over. Stern says Schrimm can't sell the photos. Schrimm says Stern didn't shoot the ones...
JANE AUSTEN'S MAFIA! (July 24). This synoptic Mafia spoof, sort of a Godfellas, is from Jim Abrahams of the Naked Gun series. The trailer, which has 17 big laughs (out of a possible 22), tells us to "See it early. Avoid the Mob." We'll be there...
...Franken's comic genius is that even though he's made it to prime time, he will never seem ready for it. In NBC's new comedy Lateline (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), a spoof of Nightline, the Saturday Night Live veteran (Remember "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me"?) plays the indefatigable correspondent Al Freundlich as a mixture of Jeff Greenfield's best-boy-in-class earnestness and Sam Donaldson's bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous...
...audience members, packed in the small363-seat theater, roared their appreciation asChar and Siemens, in a spoof of Weaver's film"Gorillas in the Mist," had Weaver play-act achest-pounding, banana-eating gorilla...