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...Ding Dong Diet...
Missouri Farmer Walter Yoder keeps his 35 head of cattle on a diet of Wonder bread, honey buns and Ding Dongs (which they eat with the wrappers still on). "When I holler come and git it, these steers come running," Yoder says. "They like it more than the tall, lush grass in springtime. Even when the bread is moldy, they still like it just fine." Ted Thoreson, another Missouri cattleman, offers his steers spent Lipton tea leaves and contaminated flour. Says Thoreson: "The truth is that cows can actually convert most any kind of waste to food...
Three years ago, the kid from Brooklyn won a job as a featured player on NBC's revamped Saturday Night Live; he was paid $750 a show. "His effect was dazzling," says John Landis, his director on Trading Places, of those early shows. "There was a ding! when he walked on, almost like Marilyn Monroe." Soon he was the program's one breakout star. Next season he will return for at least ten shows, at $30,000 an appearance...
...Dante with The Howling, George Miller with The Road Warrior and Steven Spielberg with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant's ding-ding-ding-ding theme from the TV show; and Spielberg's Poltergeist is an updating of a Twilight Zone episode. Now this quartet has concocted a four-part feature that takes Serling's moral tales into a new dimension: the second, where images and characters are as crisp...
...earnings of $175 million. But during the first half of 1982, profits plunged 27%, to $68 million, forcing a layoff of some 1,000 workers in August. Avon, a darling of Wall Street money managers during the late 1960s and early 1970s, has also begun to suffer. The company ding-donged its way to $2.6 billion worth of worldwide door-to-door sales of cosmetics to middle-and lower-middle-class women in 1981. Since then, first-half profits have slipped by 15%, to $79 million...