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More and more companies that have imposed restrictions on smoking are attempting to help their employees kick the habit. BMC Software, a Texas company that prohibits smoking on the job, has sent employees to antismoking hypnosis sessions. Abbott Laboratories hires smokers but strongly urges them to sign a pledge to take a company-sponsored workshop that teaches people how to stop smoking. The five sessions cost employees $30, but if they stay off cigarettes for four months, Abbott refunds the money...
...film The Philadelphia Experiment, a youth is hurtled from the 1940s into the present. He finds solace in a motel, watching Abbott and Costello reruns. Then he switches to a Reagan press conference. "Allison," he says to a friend, "I know this guy. Is this another movie?" Her answer: "No, David, this is not a movie...
...follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration." The result is almost as arcane to explain as Dungeons...
...happiest find indoors is George Abbott's first hit, the 1926 Broadway, which invented what have since become the cliches of backstage sagas and gangster melodramas. Pat Patton's staging abounds with campy cabaret numbers, menacing slapstick and chorus-girl goofiness, and centers on a superbly acted struggle for the heroine between a sinuous mobster (Castellanos) and a cheery hoofer (Brian Tyrrell). Broadway celebrates the gutsy traditions and restorative powers of the theater. Some 2,500 miles off Broadway, Ashland does the same, season after season...
Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...