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Just after a hailstorm, Mike Downhower, 17, leads the troop down a mountain trail and suddenly notices a strange tree root. It rattles! Downhower skids to a panicked stop and gives the alarm. The rattlesnake simply slithers into the bushes. At a 19th century "Mexican" village whose cantina is stocked with root beer, Dennis Meade, 18, finds a rare gas-fired outdoor shower in a meadow. He also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure...
...Next come the wildly colored drawstring trunks, the boldly patterned shirts, beach cruisers (bicycles with balloon tires and wide seats ( priced at $125 or so) and Zinka, multicolored zinc oxide applied like war paint. Those of drinking age reach for Corona beer, a favorite Mexican brew at Hussong's Cantina, a surfing hangout in Baja California. Noting the influence of the bar on surf culture, Moctezuma Imports, which markets Corona, has introduced a new brand called Hussong...
...movie's wildest, wittiest sequence, the gremlins invade a neighborhood bar and turn it into Porky's Goes to the Star Wars Cantina. As Leading Man Galligan describes the scene, "They pick their noses, they snap their fingers, they drink lots of beer. One gremlin in a raincoat is a flasher. There's a Jennifer Beals gremlin who breakdances. Five gremlins play poker; one of them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There...
...alter egos Kennedy and Marshall. She is bright, quick and Irish, he relaxed and softspoken. The director trusts them totally. Between the two of them, they gently but firmly supply organization to the organization. That is not easy in an office atmosphere resembling, as Spielberg says proudly, the raunchy cantina in Star Wars. When he makes movies, Spielberg explains, "it's like a Middle Eastern bazaar. The more chaotic it is, the more I find my priorities. If it is calm, it is el snoro." Says Marshall: "He has an idea every 13 seconds. I have to figure...
...news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment, he takes to full-scale drinking, surrounded by an unending hangover and cantina jukeboxes blaring I'm Dreaming of a White Christinas...