Word: cerf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seriously, folks, The 80s was the inspiration of Peter Elbling, 35, a director and actor. Last winter he took the idea to Christopher Cerf, 38, and Tony Hendra, 38, a pair of National Lampoon alumni who helped edit Not the New York Times, and Art Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody...
...group's 80s chronology finally became so tangled that they had to run it through a computer. That helped the book but not the editors: they find themselves dating checks 1980. A movie based on The '80s is in the works, they report, and Cerf and Hendra have lined up financing for a new satirical magazine. Even so, life has become a bit anticlimactic. Says Hendra: "There seems to be nothing to talk about in 1979 since we've already lived through the next ten years...
Trouble is, hardly any of the alleged perpetrators would own up to it. "I had nothing to do with this," chuckled Chris Cerf, an editor for Children's Television Workshop and a purported ringleader. "I can give you a list of other people who weren't involved as well. It's also not true that we used the Plimptons' apartment to put the paper together. I ought to know. I was there all week." Freddy Plimpton denied that her husband wrote a brilliant parody of Timesman Red Smith's sports column. Similarly, New Times Senior...
...Random, Cerf...
...lesson the ebullient Cerf never learned - and writers by the score knew it. They flocked and clung to him instinctively, sensing correctly that they had found in him that rare creature, a publisher who was not only sympathetic to authors but found it in his heart to like them as well...