Ten Years Later: Longing for Shadow Daily 'Nationallampoon' Anthology Fizzles out Bymike J
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The Daily Collegian Friday, Feb. 1, 1980--11 Ten years later: Longing for shadow daily 'NationalLampoon' anthology fizzles out ByMIKE J. SILLUP really, do you - remember George lots of pictures." The type that's collegian Daily Collegian StaffWriter funny for everyone who Friday, McGovern's platform? Remember it works for Lampoon but means Pirtually of 'Far Pavilions' Feb. 1 10 "National Lampoon "' Tenth An- well wee en. enough to understand a jokeabout it "How about a John Birch Society nothing to an outsider. Kind of like a iversary Anthology," By LAURIE JONES published by without at nowhere near $19.95's worth. newsletter parody." from a scrawny ugly girl to a dark, National Lampoon, Inc., dormitory joke board. It's funny for the Daily Collegian Staff Writer young once.' only distributed by For instance, "Sgt. Shriver's beautiful woman, and does not And we're as young as we Jawbone Tonight is a double bill: soft rocker Bleeding "I don't something people who live there, but if an outsider feel. This is one film that reaches out to touch its Simon and Schuster, $19.95, 318 pages. Heart's Club a know, we just did "The Far Pavilions," by M. M recognize Ash for he has changed as Music Steven Hinks and folk guitarist Pam Trinovitch. Band," parody of The like that." reads it, it's senseless. audience, to tell them something important In a Tomorrow night features pianist John Hastings. We're all college students, so we all Beatles' Kaye, Bantam, $3.50. much as she. Ash introduces himself gently complacent Concerts album of nearly the same way." (Platz) 7 and 9 p.m. Concerts like to go to beer parties, watch . name, features new a Not since Shakespeare's "RQmeo to her and then regrets his admission daily, 2:30 matinee Friday, Screening Room. Artist Series The New York Chamber I Satur- lyrics to the LP's "I'll make it different: Instead of can't The Milo Thunder Band is featured at a free day Night Live and read National (i.e. I help but draw a mental picture and Juliet" has the theme of star- when "The Jerk"— "Steve Martin is by means Soloists present Handel's Acts and Galatea at songs "Jackie in the Isles with Communist threat, how about a Dutch he finds himself falling in love no concert starting at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the HUB Lampoon, right? of a bunch of balding men in their crossed lovers been so presen- the funniest comic in America. I think Steve 8:30 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. Ballroom. Diamonds"). Cute, worth a chuckle threat?" well with her. The Penn Symphony Orchestra, Well, and thirties desperately trying senses his wavering popularity, which is the only State under The Marshall Tucker Band will appear Sunday that's what I always believed. maybe to remember ted. Steeped in the tradition of India, the Douglas present worth the trouble to struggle Cultural differences dictate that reason I can find for starring in a witless farce like direction of Miller, a concert at 8 p.m. in Rec Hall. And with a head of steam like how "Great. Give it to inc in four hours." what college life was like.lt's time, for this novel spans 25 years in the lives at 8:30 p.m. Saturday In Eisenhower that, through the hard-to-read typestyle. they must love 'The Jerk.' The film is "Martin's first attempt to Auditorium. !you could like these people to wake up. I'd guess of Ash and Juli and the British Corps not one another. Juli is The program includes von Weber's Overture to not what appears to be a So in next month's Lampoon you see bring his particular brand of humor to the screen, Several of the Lampoon's biggest readership is among a Hindu Indian, Ash has the and with arty luck, be his is Euryanthe, Gritfes' Poem for Flute and Or- Hits" of National Lampoon? features have grandiose eight pages of of Guides. it'll last. Martin still I"Greatest propaganda calling the college reputation of a Guide to uphold, but relatively new to film. He's trying to reach an chestra, Schumann's Symphony No. 4 In D Galleries :1 It's easy. ideas that sound funny on the first students, but now they're As a child Ash lived in the shadow Op. Dutch cheese-loving, chocolate-smeared against all they fall deeply audience unfamiliar with his nightclub routines, minor, 120, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. mention, fail miserably abandoning them. Perhaps if they of reason, in HUB The Camera Club's jurled exhibit starts On the whole, the book is stale, but as you read zee-people (sic). And a few years later "The Far Pavilions," a mountain and that calls for some material, which Featured soloist for the Poem for Flute and love. Like Romeo and Juliet, they fresh 'The tomorrow and continues through Feb. 20 in the "overpriced and full of jokes from through the whole thing. It's very easy to (yesterday's militants/today's bankers) range in the Himalayas. Throughout Jerk' does not supply. acase the truly Orchestra will be Tom A.Kennedy, Jr. the you see the same thing in an anthology. must not marry but It's of title Browsing Gallery. Pottery display by Jinx see this accepted the fact that their revolution cannot live fitting subject." (Ward) Richard Laird will present a double bass ; (Vietnam Wiz. days. Not that Vietnam bunch of "Havand" boys sitting And your is his life he longs to return to the in- its 1:30, 8 and 10 daily, Webster in the Art Alley starts today and con- reaction is still the same. For without each other. How they resolve Cinema Two. concert 8:30 p.m. Sunday In Music Building ;War jokesare bad, but it takes around an office brainstorming a day or over and lost, they'd be more able to get nocence of his childhood and the tinues through Feb. 20. so damn the first page it's funny, but how long this conflict and manage to stay "Scavenger Hunt" Fun games a Recital Hall. The program Includes Suite No. 5 so before deadline. a grip on today's humor. The new troops alive and with Kern —"Photography: Perspectives" displays ,i :Tong to remember the big names of the can you security of the mountains. huge name-dropper for solo violoncello by J.S. Bach; Three Russian put up with that kind of tripe? in a hostile country make this cast. To be reviewed next the works of Jerry Sawyer, Marc Levey, Carol 'day, the jokes lose their punch. they expected with our generation don't The son of British he is week. 7:15 9:30 daily, 2:30 p.m. Songs by Koussevitsky, Rachmaninoff, and Now "Well George, we need something with scholars, voluminous novel so and matinee Lindsay and Rich Hoover, starting tomorow and The book is also full of office humor really give a hoot the revolution. successful. Thursday and Sunday, Movies. Stravinsky; Duet for Violin and Double Bass by about left an orphan as an infant. Sita, an continuing through Feb. 29. Ceramics exhibit by "Tho Stumbles" Based on Frank Proto; and Variations on the G string by Indian servant, raises Ash as an M.M. Kaye writes with personal Runner the fine local potter Shirley Siegenthaler through Feb. 1977 Broadway production, this story a priest Niccolo Paganini from Rossini's Moses in Egypt. knowledge of India. She was born tto: , of 22. Handbuilt pottery by Denise Ariew through Indian, but before her death, reveals , ,, il 14 (Dick Van Dyke) and his love for a nun (Kathleen Laird will be assisted by Margaret Lecrone on there and her summers ' Feb. 11. the truth of his spent first ten . parentage to the boy. 414'1 Quinlan) probes the modern mores of the Church violin and Jeffrey Smith on piano. Museum of Art Recent paintings by Wirth 'The traveling across the country Magic He is with her Stapleton. This Week of Dance: sent to England to be raised a and self. With Fonteyn's Maureen be gift To to fans McCoy, professor emeritus of art at the Pianist Barry Hannigan will present a father, an English ambassador. After reviewed next week. 7:30 and 9:30 daily, Flick. concert University, through Feb. By COLLEEN MORRIS proper British gentleman by his 8:30 p.m. Monday in Music Building Recital Hall. 17, features 20.. sprinkles her description of various types of dance•with with a man. In the '6os the a British education, she returned paintings in oil and acrylic oh canvas, all com- Daily Collegian Staff Writer partnership of Fonteyn and upper-class relatives, where he is to -"' The program will include Klavierstuck VIII by personal , 4111 year. anecdotes. tier association with the English Nureyev confirmed the rise of India and married an officer in the - ~..''''''•, , pleted within the past Pennsylvania prints the male dancer so that mystified by many English customs. AA ,e/ i Karlheinz Stockhausen; The Willows are New by "The Magic ofDance," by MargotFonteyn, Alfred A. Sadler's Wells vill Television from the collection of Ralph Yeager and John C. Ballet since 1934 and her dancing part- Baryshnikov's fame in the movie "The Turning He never in, Corps of Guides. Kaye spent 15 years Chou Twelve Point" quite fits although he ooo. If Wen•Chung; Bagatelles by George through Knopf, $17.95, illustrated, 326 pages. edir.g.' O'Connor March 30.