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Re: 1969 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts Awards

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:06 pm
by Big Magilla
My vote goes to John and Mary, a dull, boring snooze fest that wasted the combined talents of the newly minted superstars of The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman) and Rosemary's Baby (Mia Farrow).

1969 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts Awards

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:04 pm
by Big Magilla
Kirk Douglas Award for Worst Actor: Peter Fonda, Easy Rider
Natalie Wood Award for Worst Actress Jane Fonda, Spirits of the Dead and for marrying Roger Vadim
The OK-Doc-Break-the-Arm-Again Award (for the most flagrant example of miscasting): Omar Sharif - Che!
The Uncrossed Heart (to the least promising young performer): Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
The Piltdown Mandible (to the most obviously and unabashedly spurious scientific phenomenon): Krakatoa, East of Java, since Krakatoa, by all recent accounts is a good 200 miles west of Java
The OhGodohGod, the Lights, the Shapes, the Colors Award (to that movie which makes us glad we have lungs to inhale with): To the revival of Walt Disney's Fantasia
The On-a-Clear-Day-You-Can-See-Fall River Citation (for the most stereotyped New England scenery): Alice's Restaurant, whose Stockbridge, Mass. was just like Life Magazine said it would be
The Merino Award: To the accompaniment of dull thuds produced by beating a dead sheep, to Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, filmed entirely in lurid aqua-merino