Word: skits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Franklin's enthralling new album opens with a skit in which the gospel singer-choir leader is put on trial for blending the secular and the sacred. Unlike most skits on music albums, this one hits home: Franklin has proved himself to be a threat to musical orthodoxy. His blend of gospel, funk and hip-hop is ingenious and unique; and in pop music it's certainly harder to advocate positive religious values than it is to be Marilyn Manson. On this album Franklin has refined his sound further; his melodies are stronger, the vocal arrangements more graceful. Hard, beat...
...absence of his mother, however, all camera lenses will inevitably turn toward the photogenic William. In July the tabloid Sun could not resist revealing William and Harry's plot to throw a surprise party for their father's 50th birthday, complete with a skit written by Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry along with the young princes. (The party, the first of many events leading up to Charles' Nov. 14 birthday, nevertheless came off July 31, attended by some 100 guests, including Camilla...
...Franken joined the first cast of SNL after he was discovered at a comedy show in Los Angles. He became famous on SNL in the late '70s with his skit "Al Franken Decade," which told the audience how current events would affect him. He was also the creator of Stuart Smalley, an unlicensed therapist character...
...play within a play, only the player doesn't know he's in it. That's a beguiling idea for a Saturday Night Live skit or one of David Ives' miniature metaphysical farces. But can such a notion sustain a full-length film (even one that clocks in at a svelte 102 minutes)? And will the film satisfy the mass audience's interest in what is, after all, a Jim Carrey Summer Movie...
...skit, in particular, recounted the persecution of a mentally-retarded, FAS-afflicted child by other youths. The performer, Eddie Red Feather, recalled that his peers once convinced the boy to place a fire-cracker in his mouth and smoke it as if it were a cigarette...