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Mark Twain parodies this custom in the opening paragraph of Huck Finn , when he has Huck assure the reader that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was true, even though written by this other fellow, Mark Twain: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
The "TRB" column parodies the truth-stretching Robert Reich, imagining him as Walter Mitty.
It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
The German critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger has written of how Grass ranges with masterly skill from high-flown parodies of Catholic litany to the impersonal tone of case histories to slang to dialect and so on.
!) and lame parodies of Xena: Warrior Princess , Rambo ("Roseambo," the episode was titled), and I Dream of Jeannie . TV husband John Goodman, who'd grown sick of the show and Roseanne, was all but written out of the plot.