Sunday, October 22, 1972 THE MICRIGAN DAILY ''age >evonl Sunday, October 22, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rage ~evt~n I T.V. listings continued 'NOTHING IS SACRED Everyone Welcome Fun, Food, NEW PEOPLE W GRAD COFFEE HOUR Wednesday, Oct. 25 8-10 p.m. West Conference Room, 4th Floor RACKHAM OUTSIDE ON THE TERRACE. People /ELCOME! (Continued from Page 3) 7 To Tell the Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies 50 I Love Lucy-Comedy (BW 56 Speaking Freely 7:30 2 What's My Line? 4 Mouse Factory 7 Let's Make a Deal 9 The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters 50 Hogan's Heroes 8:00 2 Gunsmoke 4 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in 7 Pro Football 9 News 50 Dragnet 56 Profile in Music: Shirley Verrett 8:30 9 This is the Law 50 Merv Griffin 9:00 2 Here's Lucy 4 Movie They Might Be Giants" (71) George C. Scott imagines him- self to be Manhattan's Sher- look Holmes. 9 Political Talk 9:30 2 Doris Day 9 Interview: David Lewis 56 Book Beat 10:00 2 Bill Cosby 9 News, Weather, Sports 50 Perry Mason 56 Realities 10:30 9 Nightbeat 11:00 2 4 7 News, Weather, Sports 9 Cheaters 50 Johnny Mann's Stand Up and Cheer 11:3e 2 Movie "The Fool Killer" (65) Civil Far amnesia victim teams up with a young orphan-a mood piece. 4 13 Johnny Carson 7 Movie "The Barbarian and the Gei- sha" (58) story of Townsend Harris' adventures in the Orient. 9 Movie "Dreams of Glass" (70) an fisherman's son, a Japanese- American girl and their ro- mance. 50 Movie "Cutter's Trail" (70) outraged marshal tracks down MexicanI outlaws who tried to destroy his town. 1:00 4 News 1:30 2 Movie "Freedom Fighters" (62) docu- mentary footage used for dra- ma of Hungarian uprising in 1956. 7 News 3:00 2 News LSA Coffeehou r Tuesday, October 24 3:00-4:30 P.. with The Chemistry. Dept. 3003 Chem. Bldg. - Lamp By SCOTT ZIMMERMAN "At National Lampoon, the un- derlying philosophy is that noth- ing is sacred," said Chris Mil- ler, a contributing editor, earlier this week Features such as "Son-of-God Comics," "The Dead Kitten Cal- endar," and "The case of the Loquatious Rapist" grace the Lampoon's pages, supporting Miller's contention. Fr6m cover to cover, the Lam- poon espouses irreverance to the highest degree. It is so wantonly derisive that no shot is consid- ered below the belt, and no per- son and no situation is above sa- tirical exposition. The Lampoon, first published in April, 1970, is "the only mag- azine that reflects the viewpoint of this generation," according to Miller. He claims that most maga- zines have a central auithoritar- ian figure but that the Lampoon is basically the work of about 10 regular and five occasional con- tributors. "There's no pressure from the editors," Miller says. I contri- bute most of my stuff to Nation- al Lampoon because they're the only ones who will print it." The Lampoon satirizes issues from national politics to person- al intercourse. Its unabashedly debasing style has provoked some unfavorable public - re- sponses ranging from personal denunciations to law suits. Walt Disney Productions, for instance, filed suit when Mini Mouse appeared topless in one issue. Charles Shulz proceeded likewise when Charlie Brown ion: and his con patriots appeared in a "Death is" feature. In it the characters inadvertently m e t their doom through child-like shenanigans. "Basically," Miller says, "we don't get a lot of suits. There's no percentage in suing, and be- sides, you look like a humorless idiot. We do get a lot of hate mail, though." One man, complaining that he hadn't received back issues he ordered, sent the Lampoon eight sticks of unstable dynamite. "Later he sent blasting caps with a note saying he still hadn't received his issues," Miller says. "We finally got them to him .. in jail." National Lampoon has been condemned as being racist, sex- ist, decadent, abrasive and in generally poor taste. In defense of the Lampoon philosophy, Miller cites a section from Janu- ary's issue entitled "The Vietna- mese Baby Book," in which the author plays up the gore and grotesqueness of the situation. "Vietnam is in bad taste, not the Vietnamese Baby Book," claims Miller. "In public issues, a kind of numbness sets in after awhile. Ilow do we make peo- ple hear about it? We do is throughathe black comedy ap- proach. "National Lampoon stays close enough to realitystotscare peo- ple." -Miller feels that people tend to repress their awareness of perhaps distressing truths about themselves. "We're ripping something out Spicy irrev re c ses:msisi:::ssi:ssisi:ssa ":: J:.::}V :. ". DORM FASTS ON ELECI ON DA Y-NOV. 7 4 {y{: : ;7 .I ,. N;: Raise Funds for lmnediate Medical Re/.f to Indochina., Say No to the U.S. Brutality in SE Asia Discussions and Vietnamese films on eieczlon eve-sign up in your dorm by Monday, Oct. 23. sponsored by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI CHRIS MILLER, contributing editor for the National Lampoon, explains his magazine's black humor philosophy in' the Michigan Union. last week. A GREAT SELECTION OF +f iisherman Sweaters+0 at fary 'Dibble ANN ARBOR 1121 South University of their subconscience and put- ting it right in their faces," Mil- ler says. "So what happens? They freak out." The black comedy of the Lam- poon aims at arousing readers to more liberally contemplate the issues. - "So where do we draw the line?" Millers asks rhetorically. "When you do draw the line, stop and analyze yourself and figure out why that is all you can take. "It's time we grew up and realized that nothing is so sac- Ired. 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