Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...
...highlight of the early evening was driving through dog crap, an event which not only haunted us nasally for some time afterwards, but elicited the first good story...
...Animal House, you hit the jackpot. But you get the same prize--an invitation to read to the bottom of this story --if you also guessed Police Academy, Hot Moves, Hardbodies, Joysticks, Weekend Pass, Private Lessons, Zapped!, My Tutor, Beach Girls, Summer Camp, Goin' All the Way, Hot Dog . . . The Movie, Bachelor Party, Party Animal, Paradise Motel, Private School, Mugsy's Girls, Hollywood Hot Tubs, The Last American Virgin, Mischief, The Wild Life, Lunch Wagon, Night Patrol, Porky's and Porky's II: The Next Day. If you missed any of those, don't worry. Porky's Revenge! came...
...made about $150 million. Studio executives are awed by such huge returns from such small investments, but, being over 20 themselves, they find it hard to tell which gross-out will make a big pile, like Porky's, and which will make a little pile ($22 million), like Hot Dog . . . The Movie. "Kids know what they want to see," says Sherak. "I can't tell you how they know. But they know...
...Psychologist Frank Farley of the University of Wisconsin tells it, many of the world's daredevils, doers and delinquents share a common personality, Type T (for thrill seeking). Whether scientists or criminals, mountain climbers or hot-dog skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations--they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain...