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Though Moore is adept at slapstick humor, his longterm aspirations are in a more serious vein. In the future, Moore hopes to work for a theater that is both popular and able to convey a message. "I don't like meaningless Broadway entertainment, but I also don't like to go and set there and feel stupid, trying to figure out the director's meaning." Moore thinks that avant-garde theater is becoming too elitist and inaccessible, and terms it "pretentious...
...album for one. She will finish a theme song for a Steven Spielberg-produced adventure film called Goonies, and there were discussions about the master directing her new rock video. Nothing came of them in the end, but still it is not difficult to see how Lauper's slapstick winsomeness and unexpected soulfulness could attract a director who has such a proximate relationship to fantasy fulfilled...
SALEM, MASS. What better place for a few Shakespeare puns to get things rolling? Or at least so conclude Joe Mamma (Jonathan Shapiro) and Stan Byerman (Christopher Charron), the slapstick odd couple who guide the more than three-hour production--albeit with intoxicated intermission--to a safe landing Joe and Stan banter about the bard while awaiting death at the hands of the prim. Puritan populace. In the lively opener, the straightlaced settlers musically proclaim that they have "A Lot at Stake," and then get down to the serious business of witch hunting...
While the club's tradition of antics have survived throughout the years, the magazine which or casionally emanates from the building has undergone major changes. Lampoons during the 1920's and 1930's were filled with slapstick cartoons and pieces that have been called racist and elitist. In the 50's under the leadership of John Up dike '54 and George Plimpton '48, the magazine aspired in Updike's words to be a serious literary magazine...
...early 70's the magazine experienced a style revolution from, purely literary to conceptual and even "bizarre, slapstick humor," says MeCormack...