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...Animal House is, in more ways than one, a gross example. Produced for a meager $2.7 million and promoted with a fur ther $4.5 million, the film so far has taken in more than $50 million. Producer Matty Simmons, chairman of the company that publishes the raucous monthly National Lam poon, expects revenues to top $80 million by year's end, not counting foreign distribution. That would place the film-among the top 15 movie earners of all time...
Down through Delaware and Maryland these mothers and even grandmothers on the lam from home for a few days checked out the truck drivers, waved at cute boys, and nudged each other incessantly. After dark they started in on a round of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." As the night drew on they moved to moodier songs, including some of Elvis's. Twenty middle-aged women singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" on a Greyhound bus. Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched...
...Judge Julius Hoffman and a re-enactment of the Chicago riots, complete with imitation tear gas. The most notable presence was that of the man who wasn't there-or was he?-Abbie Hoffman, 41, onetime noisemaker and co-founder of the Yippies, who has been on the lam for over four years on a charge of selling cocaine. The $10-a-head event, billed as a "Bring Abbie Home" rally, was in his honor, and Lawyer William Kunstler gave the impression that he might show up and turn himself in to police. Said the radicals' favorite attorney...
...Dunster House production of Anything Goes. The cast and company seem determined to sweep the audience away on the Good Ship Cole Porter, the decks awash with tap-dancing sailors, happy-go-lucky heroes wooing smitten but duty-bound heiresses, evangelists turned nightclub singers, and lovable gangsters on the lam, accompanied by accommodating molls. If you're human, you might be tempted to stuff the damn diploma and sail off with them, paired up with an attractive dancing partner and immersed in some of the best show music this side of heaven...
Marc Perry, 29, formerly a top prelaw student at the University of Washington. He was arrested for aggravated assault at a Weatherman rally in Chicago in 1969 and has been on the lam ever since...