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...smallest boosted their sales. Too insignificant to get pushed around much by bigger brands, they concentrate on developing products with a unique taste and appeal. Among the best: Stevens Point Brewery of Stevens Point, Wis., which makes what a tasting panel assembled by Chicago Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko called the finest beer brewed in America; Leinenkugel of Chippewa Falls, Wis., which has been operated by the Leinenkugel family for 115 years; and Geyer Bros, of Frankenmuth, Mich., which last year turned a profit by brewing and selling a mere 4,500 bbl. of beer...
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, 49, who owns Chicago, doesn't like what has gone up next door: Indiana. He recently called the state "the most miserable in the union," and its capital, Indianapolis, "the dullest large city in the U.S." Royko polled 1,000 of his readers on whether the U.S. should go to war if Argentina were to invade the Hoosier state. According to the columnist, 999 voted no; the sole holdout was undecided. Hoosiers hit back with a booster campaign of T shirts labeled ROYKO WHO? and ROYKO DOME-a swipe at his observation that...
...when vulnerable in a shower, being blind with a killer in the room, or swimming in shark-infested waters. But being mutilated by a formless monster living in the sand is not necessarily an ingrained fear. Nonetheless, this is Blood Beach's device, and as the movie's Detective Royko says, in typical horror movie fashion; "it will strike again and again and again until somebody does something about...
...perhaps, has the movie: suddenly, it seems like it might transcend the predictable. It even takes on a less serious air. A group of youngsters run up to Royko and toss him something. "We found it! We found it! We found the guy's weiner!" In another scene, the wide of a recently-sucked-in C.P.A. describes his attire: "Brown nylon executive type socks--you know, the kind that go up high so if you cross your legs you can't see flesh." "And," she adds. "An aquamarine t-shirt with the bright red words, 'Need Gas? Eat some beans...
...other hand, Royko, played by Burt Young (Adrienne's chunky brother in Rocky), is believeable, since he does not seem to take either the killings of the movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...