National Lampoon — "Hollywood: Babylon Is Fallen" Framed Editorial Spread, 1983 (8.5x11)
National Lampoon — "Hollywood: Babylon Is Fallen" Framed Editorial Spread, 1983 (8.5x11)
A framed original editorial spread from the 1983 "Memories of '83" issue of National Lampoon — the article "Hollywood: Babylon Is Fallen" by Sean Kelly and Gerald Sussman. The piece is a savage year-end autopsy of Hollywood's worst moments of 1983: box office failures, the Gandhi controversy, the Lucas/Disney takeover of Univision, and the collapse of the Chrysler bailout. Framed in black with glass, 8.5x11 inches. Ready to hang.
Sean Kelly was one of the Lampoon's most prolific and sharp-edged writers, contributing to the magazine from its earliest years through the 1980s. Gerald Sussman was a longtime editor and writer whose work defined the magazine's late-period voice. By 1983, the Lampoon had shifted from pure absurdism toward something closer to cultural criticism — and "Babylon Is Fallen" sits at that intersection: genuinely funny, genuinely informed, and genuinely angry about what Hollywood had become. It reads today as both comedy and media history.
A named-byline Lampoon editorial piece from the magazine's final significant era. The kind of thing that belongs on the wall of anyone who takes pop culture seriously. One available.
- Publication: National Lampoon — "Memories of '83" issue, 1983
- Article: "Hollywood: Babylon Is Fallen" by Sean Kelly and Gerald Sussman
- Frame: Black frame with glass, 8.5x11 inches
- Condition: Very good — consistent with age
- Original magazine page — not a reproduction
- One available
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