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June 28, 2011
Alice Playten, best known to NatLamp fans from her performances in the off-Broadway show Lemmings ("mega-groupie" and "Pizza Man"), has died at age 63. I saw her at the Rick Meyerowitz book event in NYC last December, but didn't get a chance to talk to her. I never would have guessed that something like this was only six months away for her. She performed at the event with Paul Jacobs, Sarah Durkee, and Christopher Cerf in one of the highlights of the show--"Papa Was A Running Dog Lackey of the Bourgeoisie" (from Lemmings). (Obit here.) (Thanks to Michael Simmons for the link.)
Posted June 28, 2011, 01:12 PM in News.
June 21, 2011
299. I have recently been taking pictures of topless women with lampshades over their heads because of a spread I saw in the Lampoon when I was a kid in the '70s. I had it confiscated from me in Jr. High and have wanted to replace it for as long as I can remember. Only thing is I don't remember what issue it was. Can you help?
Iit was buckets, and it appeared in the February 1980 (Tenth Anniversary) issue. More info in the Comments. (Thanks to all the helpful readers who helped out on this one.)
Posted June 21, 2011, 06:19 PM in Answers. | Comments (5)
June 14, 2011
298. I am trying to find a copy of the issue with the Aesop Brothers cartoon about how my home town, Middleborough, MA, described in it as the "Most Boring Town in America".
I'm stumped. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:46 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
297. I think I have almost all of the issues in which Howard Chaykin's work appeared, except for one. I hear that he appeared in one of the Foto Funnies strips.
I'm sorry, I don't know. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:43 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
296. I remember a tongue in cheek classified ad about “Basketball Air” for sale, not sure if it was the magazine or perhaps the Yearbook parody.
I've got nothing. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:40 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
295. Many years ago, in my youth, I saw a black and white cartoon that I wish I had saved. The cartoon showed a group of aboriginal types bowed down, worshipping a big “0” on a pedestal. There were two missionaries present and one said to the other, “Is nothing sacred?” Any idea if it was a NL cartoon? Gahan Wilson did s similar cartoon, but his was color and the people were more contemporary. On another website, someone commented that it may have been in the NL issue that had Che Guevara getting a pie in his face on the cover.
I can confirm that it wasn't that issue. Other than that, I don't know. If you, dear reader, know the answer, please use the Comments link below.
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:36 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
294. Can you tell me which issue had the story of a horny old World War One flying ace who was chasing the nurses around the nursing home in his wheel chair? Something like "Last Flight of the Iron Eagle"
Sparky, in the Comments, comes through: "It's a Phillip Jose Farmer story called 'The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol' I believe published in Playboy." So, not from National Lampoon at all.
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:32 PM in Answers. | Comments (4)
293. For years I have been looking for the issue with a two page comic of Il Perverto with Giaccardo Giannini which was hilarious in sniffing bicycle seats. It always was hilarious and had it framed in my college dorm.
It was a parody movie poster for Zeffirelli's 'The Bicycle Seat Thief', starring a whole bunch of zaftig Italian actresses and Giancarlo Giannini as Il Perverto. Written by Gerald Sussman, art by Rick Meyerowitz. It was in the Feb. '82 (Sexy) issue. (Thanks, again, to Carol for this answer. More in the Comments.)
Posted June 14, 2011, 10:21 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)