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Daily Archives: January 28, 2018
Netflixable? “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” embraces the Troubled Genius behind The National Lampoon
I didn’t have high hopes for the new bio-comedy, “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” a not-quite-all-star remembrance of the comic genius behind “The National Lampoon” and “Animal House.” After all, Doug Kenney, the magazine’s co-founder, was ably memorialized in the … Continue reading
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