Word: spoofing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...attention to masturbation--as part of the characters' lives, and as a projected activity of the voyeuristic audience, the director and his unrestrainable camera. But the movie is hardly so sharply focused and all of a piece for this to be given much thought. The actors simply frown and spoof their way through the thing, treading water in the thickest nonsense until DePalma decides to drown the show in a wave of opulent violence...
...seminars and with a traveling lecture entitled "Please, Doctor, Watch Your Language," DeBakey (sister of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey) campaigns against "medicant," her term for the linguistic disease that afflicts physicians. Lois and her sister Selma, who is also on the Baylor faculty, spoof the ways in which medicant fractures ordinary language by asking audiences to scan horrible examples from medical journals. A favorite: the article by a professional administrator that urged medical staffs to "take an aggressively penetrating approach to the communicative dimensions of the interfaces between institutions of medicine." Another example: "Birth weight and gestation were obtained...
...almost hear Louella Parsons saying, "Hello to all of you from Haw-ley-wood." This saucy, stylish, frolicsomely funny show is an affectionate spoof of the golden age of the silver screen...
...girl in the crowd of flowing skirts, crimson lips and bizarre hairdos-and the only one. Actress Meryl Streep had come to Cambridge, Mass., to accept an acting award from the thespians at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals and to watch some skits from their all-male musical spoof, A Little Knife Music. Streep, an old Eli who studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, was presented with a gold pudding pot, and was also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her-a send-up substitute for the kid she lost to Dustin...
...studio fish: Jaws II, a bummer; a swim-on in a TV series; contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb. Don Adams, a.k.a. Maxwell Smart, tries in his klutzy way to disarm a KAOS bomb that disintegrates clothing and leaves people naked. Adams and Villain Vittorio Gassman fall into Universal's Jaws pond at one point, and Bruce tries unsuccessfully to eat them. Fangs...