RE: SNL on CBGB Closing (Poehler as Smith)

["Gart, Mitchell" <MGart>]

This was really nice, thanks for posting it.  

- Mitch
 

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> Subject: Re: SNL on CBGB Closing (Poehler as Smith)
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> Rebecca Lewis (smoot) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/10/16/life-im
> itates-art-cbgbs_e_31807.html
> > 
> > SNL's take on CBGB's closing with Amy Poehler as Patti 
> Smith. YouTube Clip.
> 
> Poehler kinda goes back and forth between being a 
> brilliant visual mimic and just coasting on cliches, 
> but at least it's not just two minutes of unrelenting 
> unkindness, which SNL too often thinks passes for comedy. 
> 
> A good effort, IMHO. 
> 
> (And the HuffPost article should have been easier
> to read...)