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...time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super-8 project directed by an eighth-grade classmate in which Madonna had an egg cooked on her tummy. She can currently be seen, under somewhat more professional auspices, in Warner Bros.' Vision Quest; Orion's Desperately Seeking Susan is scheduled for imminent release. There are no announced plans for the egg epic, although at the current rate of exposure, it may be the only piece of Madonna celluloid that has not yet seen daylight...
...some 40 million "instant-win" lottery tickets to find out if they have hit the jackpot. But whether they jump for joy or toss away another losing ticket in disgust, the national love of lotteries has made big winners of two Atlanta-based companies, Scientific Games and Dittler Bros. They are the undisputed champions of instant-win games, one of the most popular forms of legalized gambling...
...firms, which in 1984 produced 1.5 billion tickets for games in eleven states, control 70% of the instant-win lottery business in the U.S. Scientific Games' lottery revenues rocketed from $100,000 in 1973 to $30 million in 1983. Dittler Bros., a wholly owned subsidiary of Southam, a Canadian newspaper group, does not publicly report sales or earnings...
...games are also popular abroad. Dittler Bros. printed a total of 50 million tickets in 1984 for Argentina, Australia, Canada and Israel. Says Robert Mote, a vice president of Scientific Games: "People everywhere like to know if they are winners--immediately...
Laurie Anderson: United States Live (Warner Bros., five disks). Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, which premiered two years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is the work that first brought the avant-garde form of performance art to a wide audience. A dazzling synthesis of music, narration and film, Anderson's free-associating view of American materialism was marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak...