Art and Science
Last night I caught the closing night of the pseudo-docudrama columbinus at Raven, and tonight I’ll be catching (thanks to Don Hall’s unapologetically lavish praise) the closing night of the grotesque satire Fatboy at A Red Orchid. That both these shows confront head on messy political and social issues gives me occasion to talk about [...]
The Funny Committee
If anyone wondered what the process for putting together the VeryClever movies is like, look no further than Act 1 of last week’s This American Life, which documents the conversation in the writer’s room at The Onion. It’s eerily – I mean eerily – familiar.
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Plaudits
My quixotic databasing was interrupted briefly this evening by the news that VeryClever’s Film Racing Grand Prix entry, “Hope Hath No Halflife,” was named 1st runner up – #2 out of 76 competing teams nationwide.We also netted Best Writing (comedy), and Best Make-Up (for the bit where my face melts off, beautifully rendered by Sarah [...]
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