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“He does need to sharpen his focus, not worry so much about his success with Rachel McAdams-type gals, and keep a step ahead of the self-parodying right wing.”
“We will do anything to get attention these days, and usually that means being self-parodying and ridiculous for the sole purpose of standing out and capturing an audience.”
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“That sentence couldn't be more self-parodying if it were written for the Onion.”
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“He makes a big, self-parodying Italian-American shrug and says, "Well, I'm an actor!”
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“And to the sweetly theatrical lighting of the interior scenes in "Le Havre"—the cinematographer was Timo Salminen—not to mention, though I will, the name of Marcel's wife Arletty, as in the star of Carné's "Children of Paradise", or the presence of such veteran French actors as Jean-Pierre Darroussin, who plays a slightly self-parodying police inspector, and, ever so briefly, Jean-Pierre Léaud, the star of countless films by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.”
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“Even as the comic-book writers tried to move away from that self-parodying characterization, they couldn't leave Robin's sense of humor behind.”
“Even a self-parodying guest appearance by Andy Warhol cannot shake any value into the proceedings.”
“That's not to say that self-parodying Blaxploitation films did not exist, but the overwhelming majority of the films within the genre during its prime were not meant to be viewed as jokes.”
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“Kilborn, with "his frat-boy good looks and self-parodying smirk," was an "appropriately arrogant comedy pitchman for the show.”
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“The missions and objectives were never clearly defined, and the self-parodying "search for WMD" in Iraq (lampooned by the president himself at a subsequent press dinner) was a willy-nilly adventure in comic relief -- to wit, Donald Rumsfeld's classic remark that "we know where they are: they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.”
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