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    Nov 13, 2012 |Story| SFL

  1. Satire and Supper - Laffing Matterz dinner theater opens season seven

    Now that the election is really (really) over, the producers of “Laffing Matterz” can finalize their dinner theater show.
    Staff Writer
    Now that the election is really (really) over, the producers of “Laffing Matterz” can finalize their dinner theater show. The musical comedy revue opens its seventh season tonight in the Abdo New River Room in the Broward Center for the...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Scientology

    2. Nov 5, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  2. Bobcat Goldthwait Performing at Funny Bone Comedy Club in Manchester Nov. 9-11

    Hilariously dark comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (pictured) performs at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Manchester Nov. 9. Goldthwait, who burst on the scene in the '80s as a solo comedian with his over-the-top antics and political satire, made his movie debut in <em>Police Academy </em>as the memorable criminal Zed. He starred in several other popular comedies, including <em>One Crazy Summer </em>and <em>Burglar</em>, and he's currently on a creative fast track, directing three highly acclaimed independent films in the last six years. His latest film, <em>God Bless America</em>, premiered in May. Along with his movie adventures, Goldthwait still manages to put together his colorful trademark satire into a routine he performs across the country. Although he's not quite the same frantic character burning up television sets, taking a shower onstage or screaming at the top of his lungs (at age 50, what do you expect?), his intelligent humor elicits the same buzz and hysterical laughter from his audiences.
    Hilariously dark comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (pictured) performs at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Manchester Nov. 9. Goldthwait, who burst on the scene in the '80s as a solo comedian with his over-the-top antics and political satire, made his movie debut...

    Tags: Bobcat Goldthwait, Entertainment, Comedy (genre)

    3. Oct 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Frankenstein, Dracula cast their shadows

    When Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" in 1816, she could not have conceived of the cultural landmark it would become. The novel still throws a long shadow across the popular imagination almost two centuries later. Boris Karloff's performance as the monster in Universal's 1931 film has become iconic, and his was merely one among dozens of adaptations and revisions that came later: movies, plays, novels, comic books, even breakfast cereals (remember Franken Berry?).
    Special to Tribune Newspapers
    When Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" in 1816, she could not have conceived of the cultural landmark it would become. The novel still throws a long shadow across the popular imagination almost two centuries later. Boris Karloff's performance as the...

    Tags: Marquis de Sade, Bram Stoker, Arts and Culture, Literature, Science and Technology

    4. Oct 23, 2012 |Story| SFL

  4. Review: Tom Wolfe's 'Back to Blood'

    The masters of the universe in Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood" don't resemble their counterparts in the writer's other novels. Their voices are louder, their wardrobes are looser, their brows are sweatier and their accents are funnier than the almighty, egocentric people found in "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "A Man in Full" and "The Right Stuff." They leak money like tostones leak grease, they prefer their native tongue over English, their politics are combustible, and when one of their own acts in a way that could be perceived as treasonous, they dole out punishment swiftly and viciously.
    The masters of the universe in Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood" don't resemble their counterparts in the writer's other novels. Their voices are louder, their wardrobes are looser, their brows are sweatier and their accents are funnier than the almighty,...

    Tags: The Miami Herald, Arts and Culture, Authors, Art Basel, Social Issues

    5. Oct 19, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Tom Wolfe skims the surfaces of 'Back to Blood'

    <strong>Back to Blood</strong>
    -------------------- Back to Blood A Novel Tom Wolfe Little, Brown: 704 pp., $30 -------------------- About a quarter of the way through Tom Wolfe's new novel, "Back to Blood," pornography addiction specialist Dr. Norman Lewis waits with his nurse...

    Tags: The Miami Herald, Journalism, Tangerine, Authors, YouTube

    6. Mar 21, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. From Sun Magazine: First look -- 'VEEP' set visit

    It's a cold, gray Friday afternoon in a dark and drafty concrete warehouse at an industrial park in Columbia. Not exactly the setting in which anyone would expect to find glamour, wit or the next big thing in pop culture.
    It's a cold, gray Friday afternoon in a dark and drafty concrete warehouse at an industrial park in Columbia. Not exactly the setting in which anyone would expect to find glamour, wit or the next big thing in pop culture. But through a series of doors...

    Tags: U.S. Department of State, Reid Scott, Tony Roche, Entertainment, Entertainment Events

    7. Sep 28, 2012 |Story| CNN

  7. Iran's news agency portrays satirical Onion story as its own

    Add Iran'snews agency to the long list of those hoodwinked by the satire of The Onion.
    CNN
    Add Iran'snews agency to the long list of those hoodwinked by the satire of The Onion. Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency published a story Friday claiming that a Gallup poll found that rural white Americans prefer Iranian President Mahmoud...

    Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, News Agency, Iran, Gallup, Inc.

    8. Sep 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Versed in Hiding

    For more than two decades after that awful February day in 1989, when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini asked Muslims everywhere to kill Salman Rushdie for allegedly offending Islam with his novel &ldquo;The Satanic Verses,&rdquo; the author was never sure that he would write a memoir about his life in hiding. In the early years, shuttling from one undisclosed location to another, Rushdie wasn't confident that he would survive long enough to write such a book. Khomeini's fatwa, after all, was no idle threat. The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who had won the Nobel Prize for Literature the year before the &ldquo;Satanic Verses&rdquo; controversy, faced similar calls for his own assassination, and for similar reasons; in response, an Islamic fundamentalist stabbed the 82-year-old writer in the neck outside his home in Cairo in 1994. He survived, but barely, sustaining nerve damage so severe that he could write only a few minutes a day for the rest of his life.
    For more than two decades after that awful February day in 1989, when Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini asked Muslims everywhere to kill Salman Rushdie for allegedly offending Islam with his novel “The Satanic Verses,” the author was never sure that...

    Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Islam, Freedom of the Press, Joseph Conrad, Entertainment

    9. Sep 17, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Review: David Abrams' 'Fobbit' is an impressive Iraq war satire

    <strong>Fobbit</strong>
    -------------------- Fobbit A Novel David Abrams Black Cat: 372 pp., $15 paper -------------------- In "Going After Cacciato," Tim O'Brien's brilliantly inventive 1978 novel, the title character seeks to escape the madness of 20th-century warfare...

    Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Authors, Armed Forces, Iraq, Joseph Heller

    10. Sep 12, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  10. 'Reality' secures U.K. release: Independent, Fandango Portobello to co-release satire

    Variety
    Independent Distribution and Fandango Portobello have agreed to co-release Matteo Garrone's satire "Reality" in the U.K. on Dec. 14. "Reality" won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May. The U.K. deal was announced Wednesday at the Toronto International Film...

    Tags: Reality (movie), United Kingdom, Film Festivals, Entertainment, Movies

    11. Sep 6, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Unconventional

    A nation of predominantly couch-bound television watchers got some bad news tonight, as President Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination and delivered the following line: "America's not about what can be done for us, it's about what can be done by us."
    A nation of predominantly couch-bound television watchers got some bad news tonight, as President Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination and delivered the following line: "America's not about what can be done for us, it's about what can be done by...

    Tags: Barack Obama, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rahm Emanuel, Broadway Theater, Ted Nugent

    12. Sep 6, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  12. Hazanavicius takes thesping role in 'Jacky': 'Artist' helmer joins cast of Sattouf satire

    Variety
    PARIS -- "The Artist" helmer Michel Hazanavicius is to take his first major acting role in "Jacky au royaume des filles" (Jacky in Women's Kingdom), a satirical laffer penned and directed by comicbook artist-turned-helmer Riad Sattouf. "Kingdom" is set...

    Tags: Yvan Attal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fred Zinnemann, Drama (genre), Bérénice Bejo

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