When it comes to current events, few groups attack a subject faster than the Capitol Steps, the Washington-based musical political satirists whose name comes from the location where former Rep. John Jenrette and his wife, Rita, enjoyed a legendary tryst. The Steps` newest hit is ”Little Botched Coup”
sung to the tune of the Beach Boys` ”Little Deuce Coup”:
”If I were not a Commie I`d be in show biz
”I`m cuckoo in the way that Yakov Smirnov is
”When I`m in jail, I`ll take a free-market stand
”I`ll sell the mini-series rights for a half-million grand
”About my little botched coup
”This is all that I got.”
COUP FALLOUT I Johnny Carson says Fidel Castro is becoming the Ted Kennedy of communism:
”When the party`s over he`s the last one to leave.”
JOHN HURT GROUNDED Actor John Hurt, who starred in such films as ”The Elephant Man,”
”Scandal” and ”A Man For All Seasons,” has been banned from driving for one year and fined $344 after pleading guilty Wednesday in Dublin to drunken and dangerous driving. Hurt, 51, drove into a lamppost on April 18. Gerry Danaher, Hurt`s lawyer, said the actor ”had been at a number of charity functions where a degree of hospitality was pressed on him. He accepted more foolishly than wisely.”
ALICE`S HOUSE Folk singer Arlo Guthrie has changed his tune these days. Instead of singing about getting ”anything you want at Alice`s Restaurant,” Guthrie wants to use Alice`s former home in Great Barrington, Mass., for an office. Guthrie appeared Tuesday night before the town`s officials seeking a zoning change that would allow him to move into the converted church where Alice Brock lived in the 1960s. The house, now owned by Ronald Ginzel, is about a mile from the eatery that Guthrie popularized in his famous ballad about being arrested for littering, an arrest that kept him out of the draft. The board of selectmen offered no immediate decision.
