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...close associates of Mottola's. "I've grown up," she explains. "It's been a gradual process of gaining creative control." So who can resist seeing Honey as a metaphor for Carey's personal declaration of independence? Well, actually, Carey herself. "It's just a James Bond spoof," she insists. "The actors weren't meant to be Tommy or anybody else...
...much for the plot, which is never the strength of a spoof. "MiB" is a patchwork of moments--here, definitely, the parts are greater than the whole. The movie's at its best when poking fun at the tabloid culture that thrives on alleged alien sightings. Supermarket tabloids are the real news sources for the MiB (quips Jones: "you can read the New York Times if you like, they sometimes get it right"). The story of a farm wife, Beatrice (appropriately illustrated with an adapted copy of "American Gothic"), who claims that an alien's wearning her husband Edgar...
...into movies. The youngest actor ever accepted at Manhattan's famed Juilliard School, he co-wrote and starred in a play at Joseph Papp's Public Theater when he was 21. Two years later he landed the lead role in his first big-screen picture, the 1984 spy spoof Top Secret! As a U.S. pop star in East Germany, Kilmer did his own expert vocalizing of the film's tunes, fought off bad guys in an underwater saloon, played an entire scene backward and pulled off his underwear without removing his pants...
...person familiar with how the Web works would know, communication anonymity is hard to achieve for Web browsers, and almost impossible for Web publishers. As for electronic mail, which, due to its design, is easier to "spoof" with anonymous messages, there are simple ways to authenticate messages to confirm their senders' identity. Internet users ought to be educated to treat any anonymous or unauthenticated mail with suspicion and caution. For those who truly take offense to anonymous or unauthenticated messages, software filtering is also easy to set up. The mailing list mentioned in the article could have been...
Word play figures heavily into all cartoons, and some puns are so bad they're funny, like the placard in the medieval spoof "Knighty Knight Bugs" naming one character "Sir Osis of Liver...