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...music.) Ricki Lake, the rising talk-show host -- look out, Oprah -- was chatting with John Waters, who starred her in his fondly remembered camp comedy Hairspray. And there was -- yes! -- Shannen Doherty, the Lucrezia Borgia of nighttime TV, the Kilimanjaro of problems, as skinny as Kate Moss these days, chain-smoking in a little black dress...
...Finerman, "so we knew we had something. What amazed us was that all four quadrants -- older men and women, younger men and women -- wanted to see it." That's another clue to Gumpmania: it's a movie that makes grown men cry. From I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Field of Dreams, the male weepie has been a dependable genre. And Gump, to its credit, is not one of those cry-by-night (but you hate yourself in the morning) exercises in emotional blackmail. It's fairly honorable about picking your heart's pocket...
...Baseball Hall of Names. So much melodrama and vaudeville echo in the monikers of old-time players: Lu Blue, Pebbly Jack Glasscock, Orval Overall, Baby Doll Jacobson, Heinie Manush. Sometimes a player finds a namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...
...Macy & Co. officially abandoned hopes of emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy as an independent, publicly held company with the announcement of a merger with Federated Department Stores, Inc. With more than 300 stores, the new Macy-Federated chain will become the nation's largest department-store company...
Buck a Book is a chain of 17 stores, includingthree in Boston, that go out of their way toadvertise their cheapness...