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Music
In alternative rock circles, alienation has been king, is king and may ever be king.
April 29, 1993
Entertainment & Arts
The Megaw’s “Curse You Villain, or Only an Orphan Girl,” by Henning Nelms, is subtitled “a satire of the melodramas of the Gay Nineties.”
July 27, 1985
Movies
Chris Rock recalls dutifully heading to the theaters in the mid-’80s each time a new movie falling under the burgeoning sub-genre of “rap film” would open.
March 14, 1993
While I concur with many of Peter Rainer’s comments in “Here’s the Deal: ‘The Player’ Takes Hollywood Genre One Step Beyond” (Calendar, April 19), I must take issue with his assumption that “Robert Altman had the intuitively right inspiration to fashion this modern Hollywood fable a farce.”
April 27, 1992
Television
NBC’s scripted drama about a reality series is more fright-night than satire, but it does have fun playing with the tropes of the genre.
July 1, 2013
Although the disaffected youth drama knows no international boundaries, few have felt as fresh and consistently unpredictable as the slyly satirical “Prince” by Dutch filmmaker Sam de Jong.
Aug. 13, 2015
Archives
Da Gospel According to Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen, Pocket Books: 128 pp., $20 paper
May 25, 2003
Awards
Can the actor keep up her winning streak with ‘White Lotus’ in a new category?
June 8, 2023
An amiable new comedy by Lee Murphy brings a warm-hearted satirical voice to the slice-of-dysfunctional-family-life genre in “Catch a Falling Star” at the Victory Theatre in Burbank.
April 21, 1995
A subject just waiting to be poked, punctured and parodied is the ripped-from-the-headlines, network movie-of-the-week genre.
Sept. 20, 1993