Word: sendup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer whose greatest epiphany comes when he stops denying the close relationship between his life and literature. Allen, who for 30 years has firmly denied any element of autobiography existing in his work, seems to be making some confessional statement with the film. Manifestly autobiographical segments, including an amusing sendup of Mia Farrow's allegations of Allen's misconduct with their child, support this interpretation. But Allen complicates things by introducing drastic contradictory elements--his character's interest in fetishist prostitutes, drug and alcohol addiction, and painfully inarticulate vulgarity seem intended to confound the audience. According to this analysis...
...sense of humor is always on the prowl, even in person, but he is an equal-opportunity lambaster. He moves from a hilarious sendup of an anonymous schmooze at the New Yorker Christmas party ("David daaahling you must meet Calvin!") to a gleefully cruel assault on an innocent Au Bon Pain patron. Nor does he spare himself...
...puts in on the Professor and tells him not to be afraid. "No one will ask any questions" if you wear this, she says and they leave the stage with the body. The Lesson leaves the audience wondering just what it's trying to say. Is it just a sendup of academia? A metaphor for the Holocaust? You're not quite sure afterwards--nor perhaps, are you supposed to be. Forgacs and Dunogue have captured the spirit of The Lesson--part comedy, part human tragedy, all absurdity--and given audiences a treat. The performances are excellent and the direction...
This could be any one of a number of Gothic romances. It's actually all of them mixed together. Now in production at Boston's Lyric Stage, the late Charles Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep: a Penny Dreadful is a sendup of every Gothic novel, 30s horror film, and classic romance to have ever sent thrills and chills down your spine...
...lyrics and guitar heroism and overblown sound effects. They don't deny that rock is bullshit; their music celebrates it. On vinyl, this means double albums, and songs imitating anyone and everyone: their first album, God Ween Satan--the Oneness, features an eight-minute Prince cover, a 20-second sendup of John Fogarty, and a whole lot of stuff between those extremes. If they have what can be called a "style," it is basic crashing party punk, filtered through a thick cloud of pot smoke and overlaid with whatever flourishes they feel like adding at the moment...