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...Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody of Truman Capote's long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker...
...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...
...sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1930-a sketch of two prisoners in a cell, with one bitterly denouncing his child as "incorrigible." Since then, William Steig, 71, has published nearly 2,000 drawings there; to celebrate his 50th year at the magazine, he has selected more than 250 for publication in a new book. The world of Steig is populated mostly by grotesques, human and animal, gamboling through life. More often than not, critics treat his work as art. Steig is less sure. "I suppose every cartoonist likes to be called an artist," he says...
...just about every actor, extra, grip and gaffer on Heaven's Gate. Cimino, a short (5 ft. 6 in.), shy, plump New Yorker, gets the most out of his cast and crew. A scene in which Kristofferson lashes out at a crowd with a bullwhip had to be shot 53 times. Says Walken, who won an Oscar for The Deer Hunter: "There are extraordinary moments with him. He takes you to places that make the whole event special...
...stadium. Immediately I was accosted by a vendor peddling Red Sox painter's caps. This was my big chance, the opportunity to finally live out my Yankee allegiance. Would I mutter some slur under my breath, or would I bite the bullet and merely say I was a New Yorker, preferring to wear pinstripes? Of course, I did neither. What would later turn out to be the story of the day had begun. I sheepishly said, "No thanks," and continued towards the stadium...