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Tuesday's premiere performance showed the versatility of the troupe's technique in four markedly different pieces. The zany, humorous "Fontessa and Friends" opened the show with music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Scott Joplin, Khachaturian, James P. Johnson and Linda Clifford. This lively spoof on ballet and love affairs has a definite plot Fontessa (April Brown) paces around in an evening gown, languishing for The Man, a strong, macho hunk danced by Keith McDaniel. Meanwhile, Ragtime (Ralph Glenmore), a cool Black dude reminiscent of Ben Vereen, laughs at lovers, audience and himself. He turns to the back...
...service providing "quality but popular" programming for viewers not addicted to the networks. TEC had a ten-year contract with the BBC for first rights in the U.S., and nearly 40% of its fare was composed of such British shows as the political spoof Yes, Minister and the detective series Shoestring. Besides showing distinctive foreign films (Federico Fellini's City of Women, Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife), TEC had exclusive rights to such Broadway shows as Pippin and Sweeney Todd...
...Lampoon also makes money from its parodies of popular magazines like Newsweek and People; according to Rheault, a spoof of the Tolkien Ring trilogy, Bored of the Rings, still generates large royalties almost 15 years after it came out. In addition, the Lampoon has a separate endowment, administered by the group's board of trustees, which in 1981 declared income of almost $20,000 and assets of nearly $200,000. Karlock notes, however, that the Lampoon incurs considerable expense in subsidizing the regular issues of the magazine, as well as maintaining its nearly three-quarters-of-a-century-old building...
THERE ARE SOME bright spots. Twiggy and Tune work well together, as they did in Ken Russell's film of a decade ago. The Boy Friend Twiggy sings in a surprisingly pleasant voice and looks stylish and alluring throughout the show; her costumes and her manner subtly spoof her past as a model, as does an enormous billboard of Edythe's face that fills the stage for much of the show. Star appeal remains the show's great attraction...
...imposing out of his old basketball uniform as he was in it, Wilt Chamberlain, 46, is gracing Women's Sports magazine's current spoof of the annual SPORTS ILLUSTRATED bathing-suit issue. Retired from basketball for ten years, the 7-ft. 1-in. former center has been helping to run a women's amateur track and field club that is considered one of the country's best. Says Wilt, who agreed to strip down and lather up in baby oil as a way of promoting women's sports: "I had other offers...