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From its early days, hipness had its aboveground successes -- the movies of James Dean, the comedy routines of Mort Sahl or Mike Nichols and Elaine May. But it took the full emergence of the baby boomers in the '60s to make hipness a force in mass culture. The hipster's stylish alienation was irresistible to youth, for whom style is the best defense against anxiety and alienation is the natural state. For suburban teens in particular, hipness became what romance novels were for Madame Bovary: an antidote to the featureless local realities. In subdivisions where the lawn sprinklers went back...
Worse yet the sedulous "news" hounds at WHDH didn't miss the appearance either. The story of the Harvard professor who believes in little green man shared up billing with the usual Oprah is certainly an insult; but to be laughed at by R.D. Sahl is surely a much deeper slander. May some of these supposedly ubiquitous aliens carry their Cantabridgian prophet away...
...think that Rush Limbaugh is the equivalent of say, Mort Sahl. And again, it's because of who his targets are. Yes, it's identifiably satire, but the point I was trying to make last night is that when you aim satire at powerless groups it is really not only cruel, it's pathetically vulgar...
...seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce had lived long enough to turn into another Mort Sahl...
...Drugs, Rock & Roll is part of the Satirical Subversive series at the ART which brought us such satirists as Mort Sahl and Paul Zaloom. Unfortunately, as a satirist, Bogosian is only fair. He relies too heavily on stereotypes, especially in a bit about a high-powered, slimy executive of a type that is already familiar from Mamet and movies like Wall Street. In another somewhat ineffective monologue, Bogosian creates a Spinal Tap-like over-the-hill rocker, and the jokes seem stale and repetitive...