Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used it sparingly, and mostly as a collective straight man. On his own, Borge ran the comic gamut from a musician's parody of Bach to a mimic's spoof of Liberace ("Here is an opera Mozart composed for my mother"), keeping his timing uniformly impeccable in keyboard trills, one-line gags ("We have three children-one of each"), mugging, puns, audience squelchers, zany nonsequiturs and pure slapstick. The viewer's first impulse is to want to see Borge...
...world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper's Bazaar, witty Playwright Jean Kerr (wife of New York Drama Critic Walter Kerr) gets a lot of certain laughs out of A Certain Smile, in a spoof that expresses the quintessence of Saganism...
Pilgrimaging to a Madrid apartment, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway, 57, sat reverently at the bedside of frail Author Pio Baroja, 84, now an invalid as well as the tired lion of Spanish letters, whose works are cynical, realistic, often spoof tradition and women. Papa bore gifts-a copy of his Farewell to Arms inscribed to Don Pio "in homage from his disciple," a sweater and socks of softest cashmere, a bottle of Scotch whisky. Presenting his offerings, Disciple Hemingway said hoarsely: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted...
...Perelman's script*moreover, is a deft, witty spoof of Verne's book, which in turn was a spoof of the English, so that the moviegoer often experiences the refined pleasures of laughing at a man who is laughing at somebody else. The main roles are competently carried out by David Niven, Shirley MacLaine and the late Robert Newton, and most of the big stars are effectively scattered about the picture, like sequins on an elephant. But the star of stars is the famous Mexican comic, Cantinflas. In his first U.S. movie, he gives delightful evidence that...
...Elkins, W. Va., buses bounced them over back roads to Pennsylvania, hotel rooms were reserved and unreserved in Pittsburgh, and eventually, when they caught up with Candidate Stevenson in New York, the rally for him in Harlem was over. In short, wrote Reporter Matthews in his light-hearted spoof, most of the efficiency and all pamper had been lost on the campaign trail...