Word: take-off
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...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...
...Tucson is Giangreco's second attempt to parody a Boston newspaper. Last December he published The Fake Paper, a take-off on The Real Paper that Giangreco said was "immensely popular...
...show, which might best be described as a theatrical take-off on "Love--American Style," with bits of oral sex and anal humor tacked on to each skit, has played to sold-out audiences in each of its performances thus far, and has added late shows on Saturday and Sunday nights to accomodate the groundswell of demand for tickets...
...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...
...which turns on a certain professor's lecherous reputation and a massage parlor beneath a pizza parlor. Most of the show's three hours, however, are taken up with Bobby's far-flung fantasies, which include a bicentennial minute on Law School history, a Perry Mason sequence and a take-off on Hollywood Squares with Law School professors replacing the stars. Archibald Cox's seat in the middle of the set is noticeably empty...