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Entertainnr By SUSAN CARTWRIGHT SUM Writer Do you wear pink and green at the same time? Do you drink G and T (or even know what it is)? Are you into Attitude Adjustment? Are you a faithful watcher of B3Sw8yy Lisa Birnbach signed co| Bookstore Friday, before li ...Pla ~By SUSAN C/ SUH\ Honor graduate, columnist ambitious, personable. Does 1 editor of The Preppy Handbo that and much more. She was born in Manhattan 2 very shy and very smart. Sh< terested in writing. Coming naturally attended a prep scl her college years at Brown Ui her sense of prep and acquired Lisa graduated from Bro\ English. She worked in pub "Scenes" for The Village Vo approached about writing a one-half months later the bool her way to fame. THE BOOK'S official publis now in its 21st printing. At 1 copies and now has been pub Japan. There is also a 1982 pr r i ror more preppy uwm viiiciuu about The Preppy Handbook n All this has amazed Lisa, w not for money. "I was not exp? by the people who are buying I attributes the book's success the new conservative politi< across the country. Another "People are no longer interesl are interested in making mone Many people use the book warns. "It is totally tongue-ii lent mnWHBBBBBIHai "Paper Chase"? Then you are a preppy and you would have loved Lisa Birnbach's talk Friday night in the riusseii nouse uauroom. Birnbach is the queen of prepdom and the editor of its pies of her "Preppy Hand! ecturing in the Russell House ns Mor iRTWRIGHT Writer for The Village Voice, shy, that description sound like the ok? Well, Lisa Birnbach is all 15 years ago. As a child she was e observed people and was in from a well-to-do family, she jool. However, it was not until liversity that she first realized I the nickname Bunny. vn in 1978 with a degree in licity at one firm and wrote ice. In May of 1980, she was handbook for preps. Two and i was finished, and Lisa was on ?hing date is Nov. 18, 1980. It is ast count it had sold 1,100,000 lished in Canada Rritain anH eppy diary and tentative plans ling a how-to-do book). A movie nay even be in the works, ho originally did it for fun and acting this at all. I'm fascinated :he book, she said Friday. She to two reasons. One reason is :al feelings that have swepl reason, according to Lisa, is ted in writing poetry, now the) sy" almost as a bible, but Lis* l-cheek. Don't misunderstand Poke bible, The Preppy Handbook. She graduated from Brown University with a degree in English. Prior to her book, she was writing a column for The Village Voice. Since the book's initial publication in 1980, r^rannHB flE? - ' ":'C^^zL?^?r='>" : \ 'i"i iinmim?i "iiiwB .. > . -. i look" in the University Ballroom. e Books every word is true. It is what a She believes that there ha\ ween today's preps and the pn and there are many more 4,c changed. Purple is in, and thi fachinn Hnp nf thn hi00pct Hi anybody can be a prep. "It families with a legacy and a prep," Lisa said. ANOTHER DIFFERENCE preppies in the college ranks on this for Rolling Stone entitli when she was in school, "1 Republican. Daddy was, but had a lot to do with the Viet ' 4'Watergate had just happene 1 Nixon went unpunished. I still Some of today's famous [ i Chevy Chase, George Bush, > Parker Stevenson, and Kathe I says Lisa. > The Great Gatsby is the > Cntr>hor.in.iho.l} \to ic fho until vyv? VVIIV V'?V At-r viiv TVMJ The Great Gats by areconside I Lisa is not sure what the fu I will stay in vogue with the Rc ! it may go underground again. some preps, she asserts. t Her own future is a little m novels and perhaps screenpla ' might even find a place in her better writer. Someday, but n i would like to marry and have of prep. Miss Birnbach has tourec the countrv and am>eared 01 several talk shows such a! Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas To Tell the Truth and Joht Davison. Lisa, as she prefers to b called, opened with i description of her outfit. Sh then proceeded to tell of he two previous trips to Soutl Carolina, one of which was t Pink and Greenvill (Greenville to all you nor ?-i 'in,k..ioit ...? (ji c)Jd ;. iiic uuici vioit wa to Charleston, to which sh pays homage once in a while Her description o Charleston was "it is just to cute for words." SHE THEN began to tell c the life of a college prepp and kept the audienc laughing for almost an hou and a half. First of all, a pre must be in liberal arts an taking anything that will nc prepare him for a job. Prep never do term papers unt the night before they ar due, or "may be cor servative and do them tw weeks late." They drag t class and finagle notes fror everybody. They fin library-goers disturbing ?and never go to th lihrarv unless it's Tin Library. They never, eve declare their major unt their senior year, or aft eight years, whicheve comes first. To be considered a tru preppy, one must, of coursc Perk ach reader makes of it." re been a few differences be eps of the 50's. Girls drink be< idd-a-beads." The drugs ha\ s is one of the only changes i ifferences is the fact that no used to be that only wealth tradition of prep schools wei is the number of conservatn . She recently wrote an artic jd "Scared Stiff." She says th No kids admitted to being we weren't." She believes th nam era and with Watergat d, and we were mad as hell th am," she explained. >reppies are quite surprisin the Kennedys, Vincent Pric rine Hepburn are all preppie grown-up prep book and Tl ng prep book. Caddv Shack ai red preppy movies. ture holds for prep, only that :agan administration, and th? There will always, however, I tore certain. She hopes to wri r? ~ j: -1 mi f lys. jruiuio Miiu i v couimeniu life. She would like to become ot in the immeduate future, s a family. Not bad for the que mmmmmmmmmmmmmaammammmammm i dress and act the part. Lisa i shows slides to illustrate 5 this. The prep look is an androgynous one (guys and i girls look alike). The most important fashion accessory for the male or female is the e beer can. It can also be used a as an ashtray. Signet rings e and pearls are two of the r favored kinds of jewelry, h Although in the South Add0 a-Beads are considered e prep, in the Northeast, they stand for each time a female s prep has been "very une prep." Layers of clothing ; are a must, as are no socks, f Polo, rugby, and buttono downs are the ultimate prep shirts. The collars on the polo and rugby shirts must stand up. Ducks and y crocodiles, not alligators, e these are the ultimate r symbols of prepdom. p Charleston, S.C. is "just ? too cute for words." o Lisa Birnbach , ie The preppy never worries ie about money, because he 'r always carries plastic. His il favorite magazine is The >r New Yorker, which, of i course, ne manes a poini 01 never reading. He listens to jazz, Boz Scaggs, Steve e Miller, New Wave, and Beach Music. To him the aas A M en Birnbach spoke cai future in the world of pref )$ ... .... V ultimate cute song is i\ew York, New York," by Frank Sinatra. He loves PBS, reruns of Beverly Hillbillies (for Jane Hathoway), Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, the old Dick van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore and MASH. He watches Dallas for trash value and adores Animal House. He never watches Chips, Fantasy Island, or Love ^ Boat. i ne great preppy movie stars are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn, and Humphrey Bogart. Preps drink G and T, Cape Coders, Bloodys, wine, and any kind of beer. If a college prep has never thrown-up or passed out in public, he has been shamed. His favorite season is summer And to him. England is Prep Heaven. % LISA WAS able to trade jokes and comments with the audience. One particular line that put the audience in stitches occured as the result to the question "Is Rita Jenrette oreD?" To which Lisa answered, "Rita has a dress of Add-a-Beads." Lisa Birnbach is a natural speaker. She is able to completely capture an % audience and hold onto it long after the speech has ended. M of the audience stayed behind to chat and get autographs. Although she had a long day, Lisa just smiled and obliged each and every one of them. lovie '?.- , jjjP|BBBBBWB|B^S8H^^^y^ ididly Friday about her idom. SUH Photo* by CAPIRS HAMMOND