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...talk about the Lampoon doing a movie one of these days, but that is probably an effort more meticulous than they're capable of. They have come out with a second LP, which was partly inspired by the Lampoon's house rock band, the Central Park Zoo, whose members include Poonies Mark Stumpf and Peter Gabel, and whose single 45 record can be played on the juke-box in nearby Tommy's Lunch. Along with Stumpf, the prime movers behind the new record were Jonathan Cerf, who was once Ibis, and former Hasty Pudding Show writer, Peter Larson...
...script, in fact, seems tailored for her heavy tread. A British P.O.W. named Brooks (Oliver Reed) wangles a cushy work detail in a German zoo, where he spends his days caring for the prize elephant (Aida). He develops a platonic crush on the poor beast, so that when the Allies bomb the zoo Brooks resolves to lead his pal to safety across the Swiss border. With the help of the Yank leader of some highly irregular troops and the customary blundering and stupidity of the Nazis, Brooks makes it across the river into the trees and over the Alps (Hannibal...
Working along with Melendez in the experiment were Ronald D. Hunt, research associate in Pathology, Muthiah D. Daniel, research associate in Bacteriology and Immunology, and Felix Garcia, chairman of the Division of Zoo Techniques at the Primate Center of the Harvard Medical School, where the research as conducted...
...required to adapt themselves at a moment's notice to the severe limitations constantly being set upon them. And the required adaptations are many. The very choice of plays is limited by the small cast of ten players. (Krapp's Last Tape has one character, Albee's Zoo Story has only two characters, and so on with the entire repertoire...
...SOCIAL importance of the Atma enters into the picture in a subtle manner. For Samshak, the best thing that can be done with a play is to understand it. The Atma production of Zoo Story, he said, had taken the tragi-comic character of Jerry, divorced it from the comic limitations of the lines, and molded it into a densely emotional comment on American life. It was only at this intersection of the theatre and the world outside that the drama had relevance...