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Park Street's brand of Muzak is not that bad. Not bad, that is, when compared to the Star Market, or the airport. The MBTA has selected a soundtrack that mingles old-time supermarket melodies with contemporary garbage rock and roll -- the bubble gum music that dominates AM radio. It's a curious combination...
...personal fetish of Kroc's that has become an awe-inspiring legend throughout the chain. Last month, on one of his incessant inspection tours around the empire, he walked into a McDonald's in Canada -and exploded like a raw potato in hot grease. "There was gum on the cement patio, cigarette butts between the wheel stops for the cars," he says. "There was rust on the wrought-iron railing, and the redwood fence needed to be restained. I went in there and said to the manager: 'You get somebody to mop this goddamned floor right...
...Disney's original vision -reissues of old Disney classics, many of which are currently being rerun in a month-long retrospective at Manhattan's Lincoln Center (sec box). Company executives estimate that their primary audience turns over every seven years; so periodically, like a clockwork bubble-gum machine, one or another of the animated features is offered up again to a whole new crop of moppets...
Tatum learned to smoke for the role, but vows "I'm not going to smoke in real life-Humphrey Bogart died from it." Harder than smoking was a scene where she had to go up to a candy counter and say, "Can I have some Juicy Fruit gum, please?" She had flu, was "full of penicillin, and my mind was spinning." Bogdanovich decided he wanted her to ask for Dentyne. "I told him, 'You can't do that. I'm sick. I've learned my lines and I can't do it over...
...picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura remembers...