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...Lampoon material usually falls into four types of humor and each is represented in the current issue. The first is the "technique of thrusting the unnatural into the natural situation." In this group are Eric Wernt worth's High Water and Dick Elwell's The Man Who Saved the World. Wentworth begins with a fairly commonplace event a spring flood. What make this deluge different is the appearance of an eighteenth century English ship which is looking for the Northwest Passage. The flood releases the ship from a sandbar and it floats into a town crew and all. I think...
...mancuvers to capture scientific data takes place in Boston--and the theatre audience won't let you forget it. Russian agents land in Charlestown and make their contacts in the Boston Common or on Beacon Street; the FBI tracks them from Louisburg Square to such obscure spots as the Lampoon Building. The whole chase maintains trotting speed throughout, then gallops up to a suspenseful final scene involving parachute flares, speedboats and even submarines...
...guess my acting was too adult for the boys," said actress Corrine Calvet when informed that the Lampoon had voted her performance in "On the Riviera" the year's worst...
...Lampoon-written prose, Michael Arlen's essay How to Tell a Good Movie from a Bad Movie points humorously to the fallacies in film reviews based on truisms such as: "All English movies are good movies" or "All Technicolor movies are bad movies." Mistrusting these truisms, Arlen builds his piece around his personal way of picking pictures the advice of ten-year old cousin Henry "who knows when to walk...
...Right, by Charles Osborne, an account of a free trip to Hollywood won by two man-hungry uglies, also reads smoothly. But in the Lampoon's one non-movie story. Fish Old of Water by Arlen, it is easy to see why the 'Poon so often draws yawns instead of chuckles. It's the old formula. St. Mark's boy meets sub-deb at yacht club party; he tries to give the impression of being a world-wise man about the beach, she--a sophisticate. Girl sets fast pace for a while, but finally breaks down and acts...