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Tarzan (1999) DCFMGT Production demo lets you follow a scene from sketch to final version; plus recording sessions with neo-heartthrobs 'N Sync flattering ex-heartthrob Phil Collins...
...poor, unsuspecting reader. Here you are, perusing a perfectly respectable magazine, floating down a river of Americana, and you dock at a story on Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...
...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...
...court-show spoof All Rise for Julian Clary, Clary--a proudly queeny gay man in dandyish paisleys and an ascot--dispenses arch, arbitrary justice to aggrieved parties: it's like the Judge Oscar Wilde Show. And Goodness Gracious Me offers postcolonialist sketch comedy from a British-Indian troupe...
...most entrenched institutions. Kellerman's creation aptly skewers everything from the scientific method to modern fashion. The remarkably versatile cast, comprised of, surprisingly enough, three men (John Keefe '01, David Modigliani '02 and Jonathan Steinberger '00) and one woman (Catherine Gowl '02), flies through the two hours of sketch comedy with veteran timing and delivery. Each of the short plays runs about 20 minutes and covers a single topic; science, government, gender equality, higher education and higher-still fashion are sequentially caught in Kellerman's crosshairs. While at times the text can be a bit heavy handed in making...