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Welcome to Off the Wall Street Journal, a wickedly effective parody of the U.S.'s leading business newspaper. Modeled after a 1980 send-up of the New York Times, (called Not the New York Times) and put together by former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra, along with a coterie of co-editors, mostly recent graduates of the University of Chicago, Off the Wall Street Journal will go on sale April 1 with an initial press run of 500,000 copies. The 24-page broadsheet will be distributed by Warner Publisher Services to newsstands in 75 cities and to retail...
...Burt Reynolds or Clint Eastwood can guarantee box office gold, Richard Pryor is the one actor whose name spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have two films in the year's top 20. And so it goes and grows...
...rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
...Sine Lampoon staffers will spend the summer producing the Time issue, when will be distributed nation wide, and editors said that they will work in cooperation with the publishers of the real magazine as they did on the People project...
...last Time parody in 1969, was the result of hard financial times for the Lampoon said Robert Hoffman '69, a former editor and current head of the Harvard Lampoon Project Fund "We were dead broke, we had 575,000 worth of bills to pay, so we had to do it," be added...