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...Harvard Lampoon--In a weird building on Mt. Auburn St. lives the Lampoon, a bunch of guys who think they're really funny. Usually they aren't. A lot of people on campus hate the Lampoon. Their humor, if you can call it that, tends to range from preppie-obnoxious to racist, but they do have occasional bursts of brilliance. The problem is that they're generally convinced of their genius. Two years ago, after a series of racist items in the magazine (how does a cover showing the statue of John Harvard with a black child shining its shoes...
Weird kiddie cinema? An outtake from National Lampoon's Animal House? Nothing of the sort. It's just the Muppets, the world's most popular television stars, making their first movie-an $8 million comedy called simply The Muppet Movie. The film is a "road" epic about the puppet gang's perilous trek from the Deep South to Hollywood...
...biggest factor in this success is that Hollywood has emerged from ten years of soul-searching, issue-oriented movies with a batch of flicks like Heaven Can Wait and National Lampoon's Animal House that are sheer fun. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller has three big hits -the result, he says, of "a decision to get into pictures that made people feel good...
Perhaps Andrew Moulter enjoys wallowing in his mudhole of tasteless, indeed sophomoric, collegiate humor, but I do not. His review of National Lampoon's "Animal House" desplays an aching lack of sensitivity to the very real human issues at stake in the education of our youth. How can Multer possibly look kindly on a film that condones premarital sex, alcholism, random violence and the gross over-consumption of vital food resources? America will never be great again as long as this leading astray of our youth by the purveyors of smut and boorishness continues. Moulter speaks glowingly of the National...
Those writers, now in their 30's, remain an elite and clubby group: bright children of the '60's who have put their angst to work for fun and profit. Explains Kenney, 31 and a Lampoon-made millionaire: "The Harvard Lampoon was my 'animal house.' I didn't want it to end, so I got Matty to make it a national magazine. Now, as I look back at the past decade, I see a group of about 30 people that I have worked with again and again. I expect to work with them...