Word: spoof
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What I learned in Alabama is that I can take this crown—created to spoof beauty pageants, not to honor the winner for his or her actual beauty—and use it as a gateway to open people up. Beauty queens are supposedly ultra-caring and beautiful, and I don’t mind hiding behind that facade, even if it isn’t totally accurate. Throughout the trip I met amazing people, all of whom seemed to respond to talk of the tiara. From Miss Tunnicliff, who admired the whiskers finally growing back...
...comedy Showtime, starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, features De Niro as a serious, hardworking cop and Murphy as the over-the-top actor wannabe who gets in his way. The movie sells itself as a spoof on the buddy cop genre, with hilarious results...
...script’s writers said they viewed working on the spoof as a sort of healing process after the horrific terrorist attacks two weeks...
David S. Kennedy ’99, Michael J. Kennedy ’97-’99, Kevin E. Meyers ’02 and Michael S. Roiff ’01 wrote the spoof of a 1980s murder mystery...
...spoof features Abe Ominable, a sympathetic abominable snowperson and Meyers’ favorite character...