In Cambridge 

NOTE: our April film is on Saturday, April 4th, We are combining our monthly film with UPandOUT's 10thAnniversary pARtY!!! (& a milestone birthday for pf :-[ Party starts at 5pm; film screens from 7-9; party renews 9-11pm Come celebrate with us!!  Dance, play games, do  your stand-up routines :-) Wanted:  minstrels and stand-up comedians :-) [In May, we get back to our regular schedule - every 3rd Thursday] Please let me know if you are willing to help:  either Friday nite for set up, early Sat afternoon to finish setup, or late Sat nite cleanup. Also let me know if you can bring something to contribute to the food/drink tables. Thank you! Come and meet some like-minded folk you may only know thru email. Share the friendships.

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you" ~Joseph Heller Catch-22 [see trailer] Showing SATURDAY, April 4, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] Adapted from James Heller's book of the same name, and directed by Mike Nichols, Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general. Yossarian, a bombardier in World War II, tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. Yossarian learns that even a mental breakdown is no release; Doc Daneeka explains the Army Air Corps "Catch-22":  An airman "would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he'd have to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't, he was sane and had to." Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch-22 is a savage indictment of twentieth century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. The cast includes Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Italian actress Olimpia Carlisi, French comedian Marcel Dalio, Art Garfunkel (making his acting debut), Jack Gilford, Charles Grodin, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Martin Sheen, Jon Voight, Orson Welles, Buck Henry, Norman Fell, and Austin Pendleton. "An apocolyptic masterpiece."  ~Chicago Times "Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this." ~ Financial Times review of Joseph Heller's book "Catch-22 is a must-see, particularly in today's world with its warped values of profiteering, corruption, abuse of power, lying, cheating and claims of being guided by 'higher' forces. Get it, see it, see it. I can understand why it wasn't an Oscar candidate, because that would have required large audiences of some sophistication, and where would you get that in the US (especially today)?"  ~Australian reviewer Sample Bon Mots:   :-) There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.€ Major Sanderson: "You have a morbid aversion to