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PARIS HILTON plays a South Beach University sorority president in National Lampoon's Pledge This! (out Nov. 4). A word to the thousands of frat boys out there hoping to transfer: South Beach U. is fictional...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) requested HUPD assistance in dealing with persons throwing bottles from the decrepit, mock-Flemish facilities of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine...
They are now, though. Women have started demolishing Hollywood's most honored typecasting: the macho movie director. They have done it the old-fashioned way, by making movies that make money. Amy Heckerling's National Lampoon's European Vacation earned some $50 million at the box office and finished among 1985's top-ten-grossing pictures. Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan raked in $27.5 million on a $5 million budget and graced many a ten-best list. Now that, as Seidelman notes, "women directors are no longer looked at as novelty items," their more established sisters can get back...
...parties and run for Governor as a Republican. "I am more in the mainstream of Pennsylvania," Casey says. Playing on Scranton's quirky past, he adds: "I really don't know what his political philosophy is. To go from George McGovern to Ronald Reagan defies definition." Casey's commercials lampoon Scranton's poor attendance record as president of the state senate; he was absent from his duties there 84% of the time. "They gave him the job because of his father's name," charges one Casey TV spot. "At least he could go to work...
...crosswalk between Out of Town News and Bank of America will double in size, and a landscaped pedestrian island will be built in front of the Lampoon building on Mount Auburn Street, among other improvements...