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Pickens has remained a disciplined athlete since college. An avid golfer with a handicap of twelve, he is a light eater who prefers cereal and fresh fruit for breakfast and likes to munch on Granny Smith apples during the day. Aides set out raw carrots as snacks during company meetings. He does not smoke, and he offers employees $6-a-month bonuses to give up the habit. IF YOU MUST SMOKE, reads an embroidered cushion in Mesa's corporate jet, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE. But he is not averse to an occasional Scotch and soda...
...SUMMER video replacement for kids under 10. The Neverending Story is terrific. Fantasia is inhabited by dozens of strange and wondrous beings created with state-of-the-art special effects. The flying dragon and huge stone eater make the Star Wars aliens look like extras in a latenight Japanese horror movie. Unfortunately, these outstanding visual effects mostly appear in the first 20 minutes. After that, the audience sees a lot of deserted beaches, a crumbling temple and an asteroid belt...
...tower beside standard-size welterweights, Breland is a legendary eater and metabolic wonder who has yet to battle the scale. "I can have ten pancakes at a time," he says. "Then I walk about ten blocks and have to stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...
...DOUBT about it," some might prognosticate gloomily, shaking their Maine hunting caps. "OI' Burt Reynolds sure become some kind of quiche-eater." To confirm these rock-ribbed fears that the erstwhile Gator's preference has turned to that metaphorical dish, they might very well point to the scene in Best Friends where, with a pout and an arched eyebrow. Burt grumbles to Goldie Hawn: "I hate grits." It is, it seems, a final, symbolic denial of his celluloid past...
Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...