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...neck of the bottle. On the label we poke fun at the usual corny hype on our competitors' bottles with Nomen Vide Optima Expecta ("See the Name, Expect the Best"), Tutto Naturale, and in place of a copyright notice, we have "Appellation Newman Controlee." As a spoof of businesses that tout their ancestry, our slogan is "Fine Foods Since February...
...were three books: My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush, Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was, and One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever. Following their literary success, the pair has moved into film, cutting deals to write a sports spoof called The Comebacks and to rewrite Gen CCX, a teen gladiator period comedy. They’ve also recently sold a half-hour comedy pilot to NBC based on Colton’s experience as a reporter in Washington, D.C. Despite their success in the outside media world, FM?...
...APPROVED. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, for viewing, nearly 30 years after its U.S. debut; in Singapore. Censors had banned the camp 1975 cult film, a musical spoof with Tim Curry starring as a transvestite space alien, but cleared it for screening at an outdoor Halloween event, the Straits Times reported. An organizer of the showing told the newspaper that censors had objected to the movie's depiction of "kinky sexual practices...
...only the faintest tint or scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William S. Burroughs...
According to Shasa R. Dobrow ’97, a tutor in Currier House, the new masters are already involving themselves in House life—even joining the outgoing masters and the House tutors in a “Joe Millionaire” spoof at this year’s senior dinner...