Lampoon Selects Cinema 'Worsts'

Wood can take a vacation from the competitions. She has captured the Lampoon's Worst Actress of the year Award for this year and the next two years.

Lampoon's 26th annual "Movie Worsts" issue will appear today. Nationwide sales figures will indicate whether there is sufficient demand to distribute the issue on the same scale as Lampoon parodies, according to Walker W. Lewis '67 the magazine's president. The last parody, on Time magazine, sold approximately 100,000 copies.

The Lampy pan of last year's "truly abysmal movies" will be sold in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., through the independent newstands and bookstores which were most successful in distributing last year's Time parody. The expanded circulation is planned only for this issue and no more than 2000 extra copies will be printed.

This year's "Movie Worsts" will be the longest regular issue the Lampoon has ever published. It will be 52 pages long and feature an expanded awards section, a take-off called My Fair Philly, and suggestions for a screenplay of Beowulf.

Although "Movie Worsts" has expanded in size and circulation, it will not replace the parody this year. Lewis said that the Lampoon will publish a "really splashy" Playboy parody for this summer. He expects it to be a 72-100 page magazine, complete with centerfold, and requiring a $10,000 capital outlay.

Lewis said that many Playboy parodies have been done, but that there haven't been any good ones. "We want to do it right," he concluded