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...Alan and his friends in the rest room, demands to know if they are Jewish. "Not if you don't want us to be," one replies. Sentimentality gets the upper hand only in the show's "big" scenes: when Alan's nine-year-old brother (Matthew Siegel) meets his Dodger hero, Gil Hodges, or when Alan has to choose between a popular club and his dorky best friend. Grandma, the Robert Young of this series, is a bit too refined and understanding, and Alan is too much of an obvious winner. Leave it to a TV writer to remember himself...
Marriott Corp., which handles the food concessions at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, issued a memo last month ordering vendors to "keep working during The Star-Spangled Banner." Employees rebelled, and the company dropped the idea two weeks later...
...books. "The past couple of years have been relatively light on diet best sellers," says Stuart Applebaum of Bantam Books. Another reflection of the changing standards: makers of liquid and powder diets are avoiding bone-thin models and choosing heftier people to hawk their products. TV host Cristina Ferrare, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and ex-New York City mayor Ed Koch hardly qualify as sylphs...
...Rourke's evolution has taken him from juvenile lampoonery and sophomoric one-liners to a bitterly funny, and fairly astute, analysis of the Federal Government. Though a draft dodger during Vietnam, he saw firsthand the flaws of the 1960s ethic when the self-styled Balto-Cong raided his underground newspaper in Baltimore and claimed the paper was not radical enough. That, coupled with the fact that a huge chunk of his first paycheck went to the government, began to steer him away from liberalism. "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life but only a fool trusts...
...Dodgers are a testament to the virtues of stability; the team has needed just two managers since 1954, and Lasorda was rewarded with a new contract that will keep him bleeding Dodger blue until 1992. But baseball's other senior statesmen have found losing almost impossible to endure. Last season Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson needed to take a month off to recover as his team plummeted to the basement. Herzog was admirably frank as he resigned from the last-place Cardinals: "I couldn't get them to play better. Anybody could have done better than...