Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Successful Product That Grownups Don't Understand Those irrepressible reptiles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, inspired children and their parents to shell out more than $1 billion to see the cold-blooded heroes on the big screen and bring home such turtle tie-ins as video games and breakfast cereal. In 1990 a guaranteed way to start a conversation with an eight-year- old was to ask "Which turtle...
...fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable. Breakfast is scheduled soon after a groggy, wet dawn so hikers can cover ground before the occasionally terrifying thunderstorms hit. Lightning killed scouts at Philmont...
Like Hughes, who made his name writing and directing adolescent stories such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Columbus has an affinity for tales of the young told by the young (he directed Adventures in Babysitting and wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes). "For this picture I was mostly inspired by old David Lean films," he says, "particularly Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, because they are told from a child's perspective. No one has shown the terror of being a child in an adult world better than Lean...
...Debra Winger) and an upper-class twit of a friend (Campbell Scott). He lands in Algeria, a hot, arid country where each hotel is more primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat...
...Musical Note--The much maligned Harvard Band paid an unexpected visit to The Crimson's 14 Plympton St. office last night. The band has been on a vendetta against Cambridge's only breakfast table daily for some time now, and band members refused to comment on why they decided to raid the newspaper's offices after last night's hockey game. Still, Crimson editors said they were impressed with the peppy, if not always on-key, rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard" in their front office. "I should have joined the band," remarked Crimson Editorial Chair John L. Larew...