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MEAN GIRLS

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024 Michael J. Casey

It’s a question of behavior. Are we born decent and then choose to behave indecently? Or is it the other way around? What shapes a person: nature or nurture? The 2004 teen-comedy Mean Girls—with a script by Tina Fey based on … Continue reading MEAN GIRLS

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

LOVE, GILDA

September 27, 2018August 4, 2023 Michael J. Casey

There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated online and during office lunch breaks, documentaries about the show’s glory years continue to pop up … Continue reading LOVE, GILDA

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

June 11, 2015April 3, 2023 Michael J. Casey

If 40 years of Saturday Night Live has taught us anything, it’s this: comedy is the sharpest form of criticism.  Biting wit levied by the absurd becomes the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down, and SNL has been spoon-feeding America since … Continue reading LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

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