Word: spoofed
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...What did you think of Ben Stiller's spoof on you at the Oscars? It was great. We got a kick out of it. Jim Cameron leaned over to me as it happened and said, That's the reason we did it in CG. Having me running around painted blue in a loincloth - well, that's why we did it motion-capture...
...They're Broadcasting in Georgia: Georgian residents received a shock on March 13 when a national television station broadcast a phony news report claiming that Russia had invaded the country and killed President Mikheil Saakashvili. Except for a brief initial disclaimer, nothing in the broadcast indicated it was a spoof. The panic was exacerbated by memories of an actual invasion by Russian troops in late...
...story's appeal. After Apollo 13 came out in 1995, Hanks pitched From the Earth to the Moon to HBO as a hybrid of nonfiction and entertainment, and the network gave him a green light. A couple of years ago, comedian Conan O'Brien presented Hanks with the perfect spoof gift: a painting of Apollo astronauts landing in Normandy...
...mock its participants and celebrate them at the same time? In fact, the audience's relation to reality shows is more complicated. People don't watch Jersey Shore because they consider the Situation a role model. It's entertaining because the show is basically satire, a pumped-up spoof of bigger-is-better American culture. (Quoth Jwoww: "I see a bunch of, like, gorilla juice heads, tall, completely jacked, steroid, like multiple growth hormone - that's, like, the type I'm attracted to.") (Read about Joel Stein and Kevin Smith's experience watching Jersey Shore...
Maybe the best example yet of the reality-fiction alliance is Fox's high school choir spoof Glee, which, in essence, is American Idol in teen-dramedy form. It is a literal re-creation of the pop appeal of Idol (just like Idol's, Glee's songs fly to the top of iTunes on a weekly basis). And it's also a critique of the American Idol culture that made it possible. In the words of Rachel (Lea Michele), "Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor...