Where have all the heroes gone? According to the September issue of New Look magazine, they`re at the ball park. ”Pete Rose, at 44, still delivers, piling up enough career records to fill a garage and win a virtual lock on his own wall in the Hall of Fame . . . . In the age of athletes whose most impressive achievement is their income, that makes him a classic American Baseball Hero.” And are there any villains? Of course. New Look has chosen one-time thriller
Michael Jackson: A ”vain, self-important twit . . . He began to believe he truly was Our Hero–and that`s the fastest way to become Our Villain.”
Director John Badham isn`t worried that Kevin Costner and David Grant, the stars of his film ”American Flyers,” are unknowns. ”When I made
`Saturday Night Fever,` people were saying, `John who?` ” says Badham. ”I told my friends that John Travolta had been on `Welcome Back, Kotter,` and they said, `Oh, yeah! He`s the one with the bushy hair and the mustache.` I said, `No, that`s Gabe Kaplan.` ”
Everyone knows what it means when there`s a ”bug” in the system. But who knows how ”bug” came to mean a problem? The term originated at Harvard when a moth got stuck in a computer and fouled it up. In ”The
Kids` World Almanac” one also learns that the first computer to star in a movie was H.A.L. in ”2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), the first video arcade game was ”Pong” (1972), the first Broadway show to use a computer to control the stage lights was ”A Chorus Line” (1976), and the first time that computers were used to call the plays for both Super Bowl teams was in 1983, when the Washington Redskins played the Miami Dolphins.
REPLAYS
”Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.” Quentin Crisp
”There is no gravity. The Earth sucks.” Graffito
”Someday we`ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.”
Evan Davis
