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    Weird Al Yankovic Looks Back at 'UHF' 25 Years Later

    “Weird Al” Yankovic is the king of the pop parody. Yankovic’s 1989 comedy UHF, about ne’er-do-well who takes over his uncle’s fledging TV station and turns it into a local sensation by programming absurdly weird shows like Wheel Of Fish and Stanley Spadowski’s Clubhouse, was expected to make the comedian-musician a movie star. Its distributor, Orion Pictures (which went out of business in 1998 before relaunching this year), was so convinced that UHF would take the box office by storm that it s