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Excerpts from the Harvard Lampoon's spoof on "People" magazine--due to hit newsstands across the nation tomorrow morning--appeared in the New York Post yesterday...
...Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what is being mocked. Most Americans, to judge from box-office results, are indifferent to westerns. Those who care are more likely to be nostalgic for John Wayne than irreverent toward folklore...
...Irving of his longtime friend, "enormously decent, generous and wise." By this time John was married to Shyla, had a son and was just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide and tippy with an easel-type stand; the wind blows it down; tiny gold footballs are scratched, buttons chip, pennants wrinkle and smudge...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning a four-decade Hollywood career that ranged from devising captions for silent films (a form she invented) to creating sparkling dialogue for such movies as San Francisco (1936) and The Women (1939). A diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), tirelessly convivial figure who considered boredom "a more acute pain than...
...badly dressed. The movie's spirit is inoffensively amiable, and Hamilton works agreeably to compensate for the fact that he was born too late to play straight a part that helped make Douglas Fairbanks and Tyrone Power great stars. But Zorro lacks the lunatic inventiveness of his previous spoof, Love at First Bite...