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...character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody of The Taming of the Shrew done in Elizabethan costume and mock iambic pentameter...
...hour practice sessions on the day before and the afternoon of the press conference are the heart of the preparation. As mock inquisitors grill him, top aides take notes and critique the answers with Reagan afterward. This time, his senior staff came to a startling realization: it had been so long since he had last held a press conference that virtually none of them had ever been in on the preparations. "We had to put in an urgent call to ask Ed Meese over here so we'd have a little experience," said one top staffer...
Wednesday's rehearsal was a no-nonsense affair: Reagan was asked 36 mock questions, 30 of them on Iran and related issues. (Every question asked at the real press conference, claims an aide, was among those asked at the first practice session.) He answered in a straightforward way, avoiding the jokes he sometimes tells to entertain his audience. "I was really nervous until practice today," said one staffer that afternoon. "The President is on target; he'll do fine." The aide then knocked on wood...
...answering machines make an effort to make the message as entertaining as possible. Many rooming groups record spoofs of popular shows or personalities. One Leverett group's message parodied Robin Leach, host of TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Goldenberg says. One Quincy suite taped a mock-up of the game show $25,000 Pyramid...
...clubfooted puppets; they would be more fun if they had been photographed watching the Weather Channel. Beyond Therapy also suffers from something like pestilential bad timing. It is, after all, the story of a bisexual guy waffling between his mistress and his male lover. Durang, who has made wondrous mock of such sacred institutions as Roman Catholicism, child rearing and the Hollywood musical, might have considered confronting the last taboo by updating his satire to the Age of AIDS. But no. The play has come to the screen inert and toxic, a poisonous time capsule...