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...SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION, by Mark Teague (Crown; $16), is an amiable spoof of a traditional fourth-grade hoodoo. Remember having to stand up in front of the class telling the stupid stuff you did while school was out? Wallace Bleff is a kid who gets even by inventing a big story--in verse, no less--about being captured by cowboys: "The Cattle Boss growled as he told me to sit/ 'We need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told...
Basically, the movie is supposed to be a romantic spoof on Greek tragedies. The stage shifts back and forth from Allen's modern New York City life to a supposedly funny version of "Oedipus Rex" in a Greek amphitheater. The latter is complete with togas, masks, and even Oedipus and his mother making out in the background. This all sounds hysterical, right...
Tickets for the "Fifth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," a spoof of the Nobel Prize Awards, go on sale at 9:00 a.m. this morning in Holyoke Center...
...Nation." Michael Moore's semi-spoof newsmagazine. Well, can't deny the liberal slant here. Moore, after all, is the guy who filmed a movie blasting the CEO and corporate mentality of GM. And with the show, as one of my co-workers puts it, Moore "wears his politics on his sleeve...
...signed up four books about the case: Faye Resnick's Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, which has sold about a million copies in book and audio form; I Know You Want to Tell Me, But I Really Don't Want to Know, a spoof of Simpson's own literary efforts; a work-in-progress by embattled Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman; and The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror by dismissed juror Michael Knox. But Viner, who was subpoenaed by Judge Lance Ito last week to answer accusations that the Knox book reveals...