Bodies with oddities

One of the most recent, heavilyspoofed films has been Oscarhungry “Brokeback Mountain.”

“Star Wars: Brokeback Planet,”

“Brokeback to the Future,” “Brokeback Penguins” and the list just goes on and on.

Some would say that many of the satires are crossing the line but others say it helps to promote the move. “If the spoof is good, people will want to go see the movie. It’s like they say, no publicity is bad publicity,” said freshman business and administration Joe

Herring.

Entire movies have been devoted to poking fun at other films. Movies like the “Scary Movie” series and “Not another Teen Movie” have hit it big at the box office by making an art out of the spoof.

On the note of going too far, even adult films are being spoofed on the internet. New clips like “Girls Gone Wobbly” or “Construction Gone Wild” pokes fun at the popular drunken, risqué spring break movies.

But are the satires being taken too far? Clement doesn’t think so. “I think their good advertising. If they’re making fun of the movie, it has to be good,” Clement said. “Brokeback to the Future” won’t be winning any Academy Awards anytime soon but with thousands of internet hits everyday, that has to be good enough for some kind of award.

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Concert Beats

Friday, March 10

KATHERINE BRACHELLI KB727@CABRINI EDU ASST.NEWS EDITOR

Cabrini students are visiting one of Philadelphia’s historical vaults, the Mütter Museum, filled with original materials such as body oddities and medical mysteries from long gone eras on Saturday, March 18, with the Philosophy Club.

The two-floor Mütter Museumis filled with items such as the livers of Siamese twins Chang and Eng, bones shattered by bullets and a giant colon. The museum also holds over 20,000 objects, including preserved anatomical and pathological models, items of memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians and medical illustrations in the form of lantern slides.

Carolyn Roberts, a sophomore exercise science major, said, “When I went in the past there was a lot of neat stuff to look at in there.”

The Mütter Museum, which is housed in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, is not an academic organization as the name suggests, but an educational and cultural institution dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of medicine and the roles of the physician in contemporary society. Itwas established to preserve scientific material for research and has grown to include an assortment of artifacts.

M’bemba Kawah, a freshman computer science major, said, “After hearing about the museum from other students I don’t know that I’d ever want to go. All the different things tolook at in there sound morbid.”

Free admission is being offered to the first 20 people who sign up for the trip. Also, additional tickets will be sold for $5, and if anyone is interested they can contact Matthew Burge, director of public relations for the club at mfb722@cabrini.edu. Roberts said, “It’s definitely an interesting experience and a good time.”

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