Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans unaware of recent events might have been excused for thinking that the photos from the White House lawn were part of some weird Monty Python sketch. Yasser Arafat, whose most recent political allegiance was with Saddam Hussein, being hugged by Bill Clinton? Yitzhak Rabin, who as Minister of Defense six years ago initiated Israel's hard-line response to the Intifadah, shaking Arafat's hand? It all seemed a bit unreal, as if Godot had suddenly appeared to Vladimir and Estragon...
What can viewers expect starting Sept. 7? First, an early start: the Chevy Chase Show will have a half-hour jump on Jay and Dave. He will do a nightly version of his SNL Weekend Update routine. He will play sketch characters: a Monsieur Faux Pas, perhaps the old SNL "land shark" metamorphosed into a dinosaur. Big-name guests? No problem: "I know every celebrity there is, practically, and they're all friends...
There were suspicions of bottom trawling when Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels chose to follow up last year's hit movie Wayne's World with a new stretching of an SNL sketch. The Coneheads, with Dan Aykroyd as Beldar and Jane Curtin as his wife Prymaat, were amusing enough in 11 skits when the show was young and flush, but could they sustain a feature film 15 years and many * zeitgeists later? Affirmative. The movie is funny and sweet -- a vision of genially warped family harmony...
...ends up feeling like the infamous Juice sketch on SNL where one bad thirty-second joke is stretched into a fifteen-minute skit. Instead, though, the movie is a fifteen-minute skit that is stretched out to an hour and a half with SNL players sprinkled around in one-shot roles...
...love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these two fully transcend sketch comedy to offer poignant glimpses of self-destructive lives. Predictably, however, the central figure is a Wasp, and an uptight one at that...