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Tribes generally hire outside firms, some less than blue chip, to help run their bingo gaming. The usual fee is 45% of profits. There are some extravagantly bad deals: some Morongos, for instance, were given microwave ovens and video games, but get only 5% of any profits over $500,000. A bill introduced in Congress by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall would require BIA scrutiny of all Indian bingo-management deals...
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (NBC). A stirring video jukebox of the most memorable sounds of a quarter-century of soul, from the still irresistible Temptations through the stylized showmanship of Michael Jackson...
...girl Fame and Jane Fonda's Workout, Flashdance was planned before MTV even got on the air, and was in production when MTV first started to catch on. Critics, nevertheless, delighted in enumerating the movie's improbabilities and disparagingly pointed out its resemblance to a rock video. None of that seemed to trouble the paying public, which has forked over nearly $93 million to see Flashdance in the theater, an additional $47 million for the sound track and some $8 million for the privilege of owning the video cassette and getting down and getting groovy in the privacy...
Yosh and Stan Shmenge: Power to the Punk People (Polka) (Yelte Velton). Actually, Eugene Levy and John Candy, two grandmasters of comedy from SCTV, doing some memorable demolition work on excesses of the video genre. The Shmenges are a couple of accordion yankers whose attempts to go current have the impact of Lawrence Welk playing a guest set with the Grateful Dead...
Computers will be joined under the tree by many beeping and buzzing friends. The electronics industry expects sales to increase by almost 25% this year over 1982. Sales of video cassette recorders will grow by more than 100% this year, and microwave ovens by nearly 50%. The high-tech clinkers this year are video games. About $1 billion worth of cartridges and consoles are expected to be bought, a 50% drop from...