Word: sketched
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...this were a perfect world, Martin Short would have been a big Broadway star long before now. On TV he was the only performer who managed to make the jump between the two premier satirical sketch shows of the '70s and early '80s, SCTV and Saturday Night Live,, and he made the usual transition to less-inspired film roles. But it wasn't until he starred on Broadway in 1993's The Goodbye Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway...
...would not expect a network to showcase a series whose premise is that broadcast TV needs to be saved. You would not expect that network to be NBC, which still airs Saturday Night Live. And finally you would not expect that network to debut a second show about a sketch-comedy series. (Tina Fey's comedy within a comedy, 30 Rock, debuts in October.) But when you're in fourth place, you'll try anything--twice--and NBC and producers insist that Studio 60 is about not SNL but a fictional lame sketch show. Studio 60 is from West Wing...
...changes are baby steps. Best-selling sportsman Michael Lewis (Moneyball) shifts from baseball to college football. In The Departed, Martin Scorsese moves from the gangs of New York to the Boston mob. Care for a series based on the backstage agita at a sketch-comedy show? NBC has two of them. And, yes, there's a new Bond--craggy Daniel Craig--but Casino Royale follows the recent formula of using a prequel to extend a franchise...
...That does not sound like an auspicious beginning for a TV series, but it's part of the opening scene of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama that aims to give late-night comedy the West Wing treatment. After Wes Mendell (Judd Hirsch), the producer of a sketch show (also called Studio 60), is forced to kill a controversial skit, he lets loose a live on-camera rant. "We're all being lobotomized," he says, "by this country's most influential medium." He is fired and replaced by two former Studio 60 writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford...
...have devoted their lives to the study of his literary leviathan have to take him with a tiny grain of salt. There is a website that poses the challenge of summarizing In Search of Lost Time in as few words as possible - seemingly inspired by the brilliant Monty Python sketch "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition." Some brave attempts from this website include "Society Sucks", "Mmmm...cookies", and "Marcel's not gay." So what have we learned? What does Proust teach us about time, memory, love, feeling? The way that he's referenced in pop culture now would have...