DUNNING * LES BALLETS GRANDIVA These winsome male ballerinas will perform a repertory that includes affectionate spoofs of dance by Gerald Arpino, Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine and Fokine, Petipa and others in two programs.
The new version, which requires a noninvasive abdominal ultrasound, appeared aimed at defusing a mounting controversy over the bill that included spoofs on television shows.
The judge ruled in June 2003 that city officials had violated the constitutional free speech rights of the men, who rode on a float that included a spoof of the murder of a black man in Texas in 1998.
Despite the rushed rehearsals, the performances coalesce around Armisen's song-length homages, such as the appropriately twitchy "Flashing Lights," and moments that include a Balinese gamelan orchestra and a raw-throated, cabaret-style solo spoof of Tom Waits by Armisen. .
Parents will love this latest spoof, which includes plenty of references to the actual movie.
Francine Parker, director of a controversial anti-Vietnam War documentary film that mixed footage of spoofing entertainers including Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland with interviews with disillusioned soldiers, died on Nov. 8 near her home in Los Angeles.
With other Comedy Store talents including Dawn French and Alexei Sayle, Mayall created The Comic Strip Presents, a long-running series of literary and cinematic spoofs that was part of Channel 4's launch night in 1982.
The result is an inside-Hollywood spoof that, nonetheless, slices deep into its artists' vulnerabilities.
The movies were skewed genre commentary: surreal parody, offered without irony; spoof that was too unstable to settle into satire.
Surette thought that it was "[a]n Avatar spoof that came about two years too late.
