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Tuesday, October 17: Theater: "The Night of the Burning Pestle," Beaumont and Fletcher's spoof of Shakespeare and Don Quixote, through October 21. For info and ticket prices call...
...Overtures in Asia Minor," a spy spoof, has been chosen as this year's musical production by the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society, Thomas A. Rando '79, assistant producer, said last night...
...State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...charm, Dutch Physician Wil Huygen and Illustrator Rien Poortvliet put together a mock sociological history of the gnome that is proving to be an astonishing money spinner. Ponderously titled leven en werken van de Kabouter (The Life and Work of the Gnomes) in The Netherlands, the book is a spoof that solemnly reports that, among other things, Mozart's gnome pal is still alive, gnomes always have twins, they use opium for digestive upsets and would rather be without pants than their conical red caps...
...Need Is Cash, a frantic spoof of Beatlemania, is 90 minutes long and has about three genuine laughs. By the prevailing standards of network comedy specials, like Mary Tyler Moore's recent hour on CBS, three laughs are nothing to scoff at. But this show promised so much more. The producer is Lome Michaels, the guiding spirit of NBC's feisty Saturday Night Live. The writer and co-director (with Gary Weis) is Eric Idle, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The show's cast includes Mick and Bianca Jagger, George Harrison, Paul Simon and four...