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...short, this grisly comedy of horrors is about more than the tragic death of one irrelevant, decaying Playboy model; it’s an unflattering sketch of the society that created such a ghastly specimen in the first place. Some might see her as an example of the glamour model life gone wrong—in fact, the opposite is the case. Smith was the archetype of the pornstar model existence: nasty, brutish, and short...
...working definition of Surrealism—and it could very well have described the serial structure of the play itself. There were some recurring characters, and there was almost the skeleton of a plot throughout the play, but the form of the show was ultimately that of a Surrealist sketch comedy...
...sketch, the characters stood on a darkened stage and told jokes, turning on flashlights whenever they spoke. In another, a character named XY (Rachel Marie Douglas ’09) explained her ambitions to become “the lightweight polyglot champion of the world...
...risk of being accused of date rape and bring them closer together. When he lived in New York City, Ferrell would find the most ordinary painting in a museum and bawl in front of it. While at SNL, he even cultivated an unusual fondness for bombing. "If a sketch bombs, a lot of times you'll see a performer just hit the beats and get out," says McKay, a former head writer on the show. "Will would drag it out and make it longer, like, 'No, no, you're going to be listening to this for a while...
...question Marrogi and other doctors began to ask themselves was what was happening to the money. They focused on Gerber's life-style. Earning $325,000 a year, Gerber had a $7,000 monthly mortgage on a $1.2 million home in an exclusive New Orleans neighborhood. A signed sketch by Picasso was placed eye-catchingly near the front door. He had two, possibly three, Mercedes-Benz, a $300,000 condo in Colorado and a $345,000 house in Florida. He also had more than $3 million in an investment fund and several hundred thousand dollars in a trust fund...