"The Death of Ronald Reagan" - an E! True-Enough Hollywood Story

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http://www.terminalproduct.com/thedeathofronaldreagan.rm

Er, I don't think I want to try and explain this one.

[FDRrocks]

1. Is that a monkey?

Hilarious. got the year of birth wrong at the end though.

[thebigidea]

2. eek - I'll fix it.

Part two just got done rendering, the whole week of mediawhore celebration boiled down to 9 minutes. PAINFUL.

and yeah, that's a monkey.

[thebigidea]

5. hmm, the "fixed" version didn't include the text at all for some reason...

ah well - the only innacuracy now is uh, the whole scenario - as opposed to the dates.

[Kool Kitty]

9. Oh, lookee there!

Bonzo goes to Bitburg! Fab-yew-lous, as usual. (So you're an SCTV fan, too? Should've known.)

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10. I was always jealous of Bobby Bittmann - what a brilliant creation

Eugene Levy is a god!

The Fantasy Island/Casablanca/Hope n' Crosby parody is playing now, and it all stands up so well.

my next project is a sketch comedy thing along very distantly similar lines, hopefully I can get to work on that after this little monkey is voted out of office. There's like 8 scripts in a pile and many tapes/film of bits for it accumulated on the side of this seemingly endless PARANOIA SHOW project.

Dubya seems to compellllllll me to continue with each awful move he makes.

[Kool Kitty]

11. All I have to say about that is-

HOW ARE YAAAA? I liked all his characters-how about the newscaster, Earl Camenbert (sp?)? And "Maudlin's Eleven" with the beatniks and the Harmonica Rascals?

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12. and who could forget the fabulous Lola Heatherton...

My favorite Earl skit was the one where he was wearing ridiculous clothing that either blended in with the background or gave out crazy light...

SCTV always mauled the sickly SNL, far better writing...

[Kool Kitty]

13. OMFG, Lola Heatherton!

I'll be laughing all night about her.

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14. Catherine O'Hara was/is wonderful, really an underappreciated actress

[Kool Kitty]

15. Remember when Lola interviewed

Mother Teresa? "You're so good, it's scareeeee." (With the equally-underappreciated Andrea Martin as the good Mother.)

[thebigidea]

16. LOLA: "I want to bear your children - each and every one of you!"

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3. Part 2: Funeral for a Fool

http://www.terminalproduct.com/thedeathofronaldreaganpart2.rm

Outtakes and idiocy from the past week of overblown media coverage. Just for amusement, I tossed it all together randomly ala WSBurroughs' cutup method... some of the superimpositions are oddly appropriate: like Nancy glaring at Barbara Bush, a german POW camp commander turning into John Ashcroft, etc.

Headachey fun for the whole family!

After this, I never want to hear the word "Reagan" again.

[thebigidea]

4. ooo, that ones leaves scars, doesn't it.

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6. as a nice antidote to all this Reagan, I just got the SCTV boxed set

Oh geez, is it good. Suddenly a week of relentless pompadoured dead actor-worship is wiped away. I can breathe again! Shout hosanna!

[FDRrocks]

7. Kick/Post

I really love your work. It has a dark surreal quality to it. I'm surprised that it doesn't get more attention here. Great job.

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8. I WAS A TEENAGE LUIS BUNUEL FOR THE DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND!