Word: keenen
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...poor, unsuspecting reader. Here you are, perusing a perfectly respectable magazine, floating down a river of Americana, and you dock at a story on Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...
...roots as the second of 10 children in a family in the New York City projects into television history. He had also ascended to the galaxy of stars fated to spend the bulk of their careers overshadowed by their own TV excellence. (Coincidentally, these stars often have three names: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Mary Tyler Moore and, next up, Sarah Jessica Parker...
...Just when you have come to terms with the fact that there will be no Scream 4, thankfully, Keenen Ivory Wayans and his 96 brothers (2 appear in the film) are ready to give you their own twist. With Scream, we got a highly entertaining parody of the horror genre (yes, it was a parody) but with Wayans' brilliant sense of subtlety we get an even more devastating parody of a parody. Yes it can be done, and who better than 476 Wayans Brothers to pull it off. Scary Movie, as if not implicit in the name, is made...