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...herself for having survived a strict Catholic upbringing -- are selling at concerts at a rate not seen even in the mega-meltdown tours of Michael Jackson and Prince. This is very important, and not just because it brings in money by the front-end loaderful. Fathers new to the bubblegum rock ramble (though they may have hung out at the Stones' concerts only a few years ago) may think that all they have to spring for is a pair of $15 tickets, a couple of $1.50 hot dogs and the parking fee. Not so. The young fans are telling their...
...Bubblegum, shrimp, sour cream and onion, cinnamon, deep chocolate, and nacho are only a few of the flavors set to hit Harvard Square later this month when the Cornpopper store opens on Mt. Auburn St. And while the merchandise may be novel, the Cambridge locate is in no way an experiment Cornpopper stores have already proved successful in Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, according to Steven Gainsborough, the chain's associate owner...
DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart...
Boswell--whose byline now regularly appears on the sports pages of the Washington Post--is a baseball purist, weaned on stickball, bubblegum cards, and dog-earned Street and Smith's baseball yearbooks New Life....his first foray into the book world, is designed primarily, appropriately enough, for other purists, those estimable creatures who can really understand why a walk is most times as good as a hit or why the Baltimore Orioles have won more games than any other team in the past 20 years. A rambling compendium of assorted stories and analyses spaced out over a mythical season...
...turns this romantic dreamer with ideals dripping from his doublet into a sort of Dennis the Menace of the ancien regime. At first blush, you can't help wondering how this marginally pubescent page would go about kissing one of his idols--he'd have to spit out his bubblegum first. But Atkinson's verve and charm finally overcome the improbability of her characterization to make it a high point of the production...