Word: sketched
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good things it did--I would be so nervous about it that I would loosen up in all my sketches. So it helped in my sketch work. But I'm really happy to have a year behind me. I'm just starting to turn the corner and get a little bit more comfortable...
...funny. One time we did an Ocean's Eleven sketch, and there was, like, eight of us sitting on a couch, and we were all laughing because not one of us looked anything like the person we were playing--Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. Sometimes you just kind of make something up: O.K., I'm gonna pretend that Julia Roberts always has her mouth open. You just try to pick one thing and see if it flies...
...fell in love with? John McCain--who was hilarious and so excited that he was doing it and giddy about staying up so late. Someone that I probably never would have met in any other way in my life, and who, like, suddenly you're doing a sketch where you're together in the shower...
Unfortunately, Morrow is not quite as focused as his subjects, and many of his tidbits about characters and events tangentially related to the three presidents feel out of place. For example, the book includes a glowing biographical sketch of former Secretary of State George C. Marshall that is only very loosely tied to the big three. Another chapter entitled “Brumidi’s Frescoes and Film Noir” seems similarly detached. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States...
During a break in his testimony, England glanced at a court sketch of Graner, who married another Abu Ghraib defendant, and said, "Don't forget the horns and goatee." --By Mitch Frank