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Will Ferrell's cocky,�bimbo-loving character Chazz (an "ice-devouring tornado of sex") in the figure-skating spoof Blades of Glory would have found a soulmate in Christopher Bowman, a star of the sport in the 1980s and '90s. "Bowman the Showman," a former child actor, improvised routines at the last minute, winked at the cameras and flirted with female fans. He won the men's nationals in 1989 and '92, but his fights with coaches and off-rink habits?drinking, cocaine, women?began to overshadow his talent. At the time of his death from unknown causes...
...scene featured the kind of irony that makes spoof newscasts worth watching: ignorance controlling expertise, the jocular triumphing over the serious, the layman anchor taking the scholarly, bespectacled professor to task on the subject of his own book...
...wants to make us sing. In “Walk Hard,” Reilly shows off his musical talents for the first time since 2002’s “Chicago,” playing fictional rock-and-roll legend Dewey Cox, a spoof on any number of legendary music icons. “I fell in love with this character and all of the phases of his life,” says Reilly. “My favorite thing about playing Dewey was getting to be a rock star. He had a goofy optimism and he wouldn?...
...stage, writes the songs himself, indulges all his vulgar-vaudevillian comic impulses, and shows the Broadway pros how to do it - what could be more thrilling? And so, when Brooks went back to his film archives to perform the same trick with Young Frankenstein, his horror-movie spoof from 1974, the buzz on Broadway was that another can't-miss...
...imagine today that a half-century ago, TV was essentially the Internet: a wicked-cool invention that experimentalists would toy with just to see what crazy stuff they could make it do. Ernie Kovacs was the most innovative of TV's early mad scientists, using his comedy hour to spoof such then new creations as newscasts and ads and employing visual effects like upside-down pictures and tilted sets to appear to defy gravity. Comedy is lying done amusingly, and Kovacs knew that TV--which purported to show all but hid everything beyond the outline...