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...like telephone circuits while the operator. Jeanette Caurant, alternates between incoming calls and a conversation with her friend Roberta. The line of humming circuit impersonators switches back and forth with each call. This line quickly becomes a row of medical assistants passing instruments back and forth in a surgical spoof...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: America Hooray | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

...ceremonies took place at noon as a handful of autograph hunters, a clubhouse full of Puddings, and two waylaid churchgoers attended a preview of the 124th running of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a musical spoof of the American revolution entitled The Wrongway Inn, scheduled to hit the boards officially this Thursday night...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Ruby Comes Up Star, Goes Back Pudding | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...small town Hellenic Society on its spring outing). The best numbers are the homages to Berkeley, with their overhead shots of chorines in kaleidoscope patterns. Aficionados of old movie musicals will love these scenes-but not as much as Russell, who can hardly bring himself to end them. A spoof of a spoof, this two-hour-plus film sometimes seems to reprise every reprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Russell: Spoofing the Spoof | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...wants "nothing to do with a glorified booking house." Included in his future plans for the center are a series of programs of choral masterpieces that will employ the resources of the city's excellent choirs, and an election-year revival of George Gershwin's musical spoof of the presidency, Of Thee I Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Julius the Cool | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...have had a cold since 1918 and said that sneezing was only a small part of his repertoire, Gilbert kerchooed his way to stage and screen success in the 1930s and '40s. His 300 films included The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Chaplin's classic Hitler spoof, The Great Dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1971 | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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