Word: lampooning
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...Harvard Lampoon, an issue that's funny...
...latest Crimson parody, notably more witty, insightful, professional, informative, innovative, colorful, intelligable, and legible than a similar Lampoon undertaking last spring, claimed that the National Collegiate Athletic Association had suspended Harvard football for the remainder of the season because of the free use of cars routinely provided by the Department of Athletics to members of the football team...
...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 Editor Kevin Buckley denied that he and Frankie FitzGerald collaborated on the parody of Reston, and Tony Hendra, a former National Lampoon editor, denied that he posed for the photo of the Pope...
...capitalistic ventures can rival the return on invest ment of a movie megabit, and National Lampoon's Animal House is, in more ways than one, a gross example. Produced for a meager $2.7 million and promoted with a fur ther $4.5 million, the film so far has taken in more than $50 million. Producer Matty Simmons, chairman of the company that publishes the raucous monthly National Lam poon, expects revenues to top $80 million by year's end, not counting foreign distribution. That would place the film-among the top 15 movie earners of all time...
Simmons, who co-founded Diners' Club and published Weight Watchers Magazine before he launched National Lampoon, has three movies to go on his four-film-minimum contract with Universal Pictures. The bankroller and distributor of Animal House, Universal recouped its initial in vestment a few weeks after the film's opening. National Lampoon's cut of the gross - 5% at first, but now and henceforth 17.5% - translates into $3 million...