Friday Fun Links
Gary Farber has an interesting series of posts (here, here, here, and here) about elements of Revenge of the Sith that ended up on the cutting room floor.
From Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse, the adventures of Divertor! The Jay Leno impression just slays me.
I don’t know what made me think of the Movie Trailer Cliché Theater, but it never fails to raise a smile. I miss Modern Humorist something fierce.
All the Deep Throat talk reminded me of the pleasant little comedy Dick, which proposes that Deep Throat was really two bubbly teenage girls who wandered downstairs at the wrong time during a sleepover at the Watergate. Will Ferrell and Bruce McCulloch (from “Kids in the Hall”) steal the show as Woodward and Bernstein, but Jim Breuer (as John Dean) and Harry Shearer (as G. Gordon Liddy) have some moments. I think we’ve got some readers who would enjoy it at their hastily-scheduled Deep Throat parties this weekend.
“I have a report on Turquoise jewelry due in two days, and the president is trying the kill me!”
The guy that played Kissinger was the best.
See “Dick” this weekend for sure, people. Although when you watch it, think about who the hell greenlit the film- if you don’t know anything about Watergate, you won’t get some of the sly humor.
“You smell like cabbage.”
TOON OF THE DAY: Presidential “Payola”
“Deep Throat parties”—only last week it would have been scandalous.
Also, everything you wanted to know about the Sith, but were afraid to ask, and play twenty questions with Darth Vader.
Thank you, Ted. You have moved me faintly closer towards being a bodhisattva via my not nagging.
Incidentally, rumor has it that the writer of Dick is married to blogger Roger Simon.
Even this week, a “deep throat party” would be in pretty bad taste.
How about a Felt Tip party? (Stolen from the New York Post’s headline) At least there, the pun is (mainly) on a pen.
I suppose you could go somewhere else with it, but let’s not.
Looks like Rogers Cadenhead has scooped Drudge on the Deep Throat beat:
Reporters have yet to discover [Joan Felt’s] association with a spiritual group called Adidam…
A lawsuit filed by three former Adidam members in 1985 alleged that adherents impoverished themselves while the group’s founder lived opulently with nine wives and 30 followers on a Fiji island bought for $2.1 million from the actor Raymond Burr.
Yes, see Dick; it’s a minor masterpiece of satire. But hey, the show absolutely belongs to Dave Foley’s Halderman—great, understated, funny stuff.
New Jersey Governor makes fool out of himself.
Personally, I lost it on the SNL thing at “You can’t speak for all the mutants!”
“Dick” is great. Terrific performances all round – and Dan Hedaya is a suitably creepy Nixon. Also
the greatest theory ever about what was on the
missing section of tape :-)