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...BOTTOM LINE: A spoof of true-crime movies is more believable than the real thing...
...Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom -- a new, rather too strenuously titled HBO film -- is intended to be a spoof of TV's ubiquitous true-crime movies. The joke is that it's more believable than most of the ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas it pokes fun at. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile, The Candidate) and screenwriter Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance) don't lampoon the genre; they merely strip it of the solemn sensationalism that TV usually lavishes on these seedy tales. What's left is acid black comedy...
...Review editors agree they need to put this issue behind them. With this controversy following the outcry over the parody of murdered feminist legal scholar Mary Joe Frug's article in last year's annual spoof issue, the Review has never had such a tumultuous time...
Great White Spoof...
ELEVEN YEARS AFTER TURNING OUT HIS first, delicious spoof of big-time musicals, Gerard Alessandrini is still skewering away -- wicked as ever. His 12th and latest off-Broadway review, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow...