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...Lampoon paid more than $400,000 to a subsidiary of Gannett Publishing, Gannett Offset, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, to print the spoof, said Armstrong...
...order to plug their latest work, Greaney and other members of the Lampoon will appear on the Today show tomorrow with Gene Shalit. On the same day, Ron Reagan, President Reagan's son, will also broadcast a taped segment on the spoof from Cambridge for Good Morning America...
...seen earlier this year on network television, Ronald Prescott Reagan, 28, was dancing in his underwear on Saturday Night Live. Next month he returns to the tube as a pitchman. Seated in a crowded airliner, he asks a familiar question--"Do you know me?"--then proceeds with a gentle spoof of his family connection: "Every time I appear on a talk show, people ask me about my father. Every time I give out an interview, people ask me about my father. Every time I pull out the American Express card, people treat me like my father. Come to think...
...jubilant finale, the troupe is now performing an uproarious double bill about bad theater and worse reviewers: Tom Stoppard's staging of his own The Real Inspector Hound, followed by Sheridan's dizzying spoof of epic tragedy, The Critic, last seen on Broadway 40 years ago in a production that featured Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson in roles that McKellen and Petherbridge play. Hound is a schoolboy-clever send-up of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world...
...title alone is provocative: Soap-Powders and Detergents. Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge, Mass., is a lighthearted, structurally elegant look at washday...