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THERE WAS NO REASON to go on and show the movie. The screen could have been the campfire, the screaming pre-pubescent bubble gum crowd a Browine troop, and the popcorn roasting chestnuts over an open fire. Before the screening began last Thursday at the Sack Charles, a local dee-jay stood up front and called out the ticket numbers of the proud winners of a giant Rick Springfield poster. I looked at my ticket stub blandly What would my roommate...
...send the training-bra set into hysterics, she sends back the requisite two dozen roses and the gift-wrapped new car. When he tracks her down to her favorite restaurant, she snubs him and his bubbly once again. "I don't know your music," she says. "It's bubble gum." Her taste: Tony Bennett...
...while he peed and demanded that he learn multiplication tables. Driscoll, who substituted for Thomas Derrah on opening night, spends most of the play gazing stupidly at his even stupider girlfriend Lorraine (Maggie Topkis): both play their roles with a frighteningly convincing ditziness. Topkins swills beers and chomps on gum picked off the floor as she sends out for pizza to swell her already-ample girth...
...deal was the second major purchase in two days for Forstmann Little, which was formed in 1978 by Wall Streeter Wm. Brian Little, now 41, and the brothers Forstmann: Theodore J., 43, and Nicholas C., 36. The day before, the firm had agreed to buy Topps Chewing Gum (fiscal 1983 sales: $69.7 million), makers of the famous baseball cards, for some $95 million. Last January Forstmann Little paid about $100 million for Beverage Management of Columbus, a bottler of Seven-Up and Royal Crown Cola. Said Emanuel Goldman, a leading beverage analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities: "They truly...
McGovern then had his turn. "I guess I'll have some of my favorite. Pink bubble gum...