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Suddenly a strange little creature pops out. He looks like one of the gargoyles with whom the Hunchback used to play at Notre Dame. He even spouts a kind of Chaucerian Middle English, with many of his verbs and adjectives piling up at the end of sentences...
...with that, the immense knight drew his sword and sliced off Kob's head cleanly where the neck meets the shoulders. And the head rolled to the side as the hunchback flailed his arms, which the knight sliced away--one at a time. And so the Green Meanies could pass over the bridge...
Even Harris Rosenblatt, raised with Gold in Brooklyn and now a homogenized bureaucrat, gets in a lick. "I used to be Jewish, you know," says Rosenblatt. "I used to be a hunchback," says Gold. "Isn't it amazing," says Rosenblatt, "how we've both been able to change...
Even more compelling for the Chinese, accustomed to a fare of jingoism on television, was the airing of the 1957 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Gina Lollobrigida as the sultry Esmeralda in a low-cut red gown. Also shown on TV was a short film on America provided by the U.S. Government and, most surprising of all, a documentary on Taiwan that contrasted with the routine depiction of the island as a cesspool of oppression and poverty. The film showed the prosperous city of Taipei, well-run private farms and Buddhist monks at worship...
Before working on the show Borowitz had already garnered an impressive list of credits in Harvard comic theater. Last year he wrote the script of the Hasty Pudding show, "A Thousand Clones." He also kept himself busy directing his original show, "Gars and Goyles," a musical comedy of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...