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...Harvard Lampoon knows it. The 'Poon has dissected People, pared it down to its vinyl soul and looked inside. The Lampoon did not look for a heart of darkness and did not find one; what appears instead is a catalogue of foibles, not sins, in a nation of genial losers. All is well, if not exactly perfect, in the land of Brooke and Bo. Incidentally, the whole thing is pretty funny...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...come to claim their 15 minutes in the sun. People looks at its flock with an endearing innocence; it sees only good and bad, with little in between. The crucial point about People is that it sees its once-ordinary folks as good, and this is the quality the 'Poon captures so well...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Wealth and Puberty | 10/21/1981 | See Source »

...story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast of characters includes people like Four Finger Wu and Good-weather Poon. Ayeeyah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bed Sheets Bonanza | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Gillespie, who said he was not allowed to say anything about the case, noted that a $20,000 reward for information the 'Poon allegedly offered was never awarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon's Ibis Returns | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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