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DURING THE COURSE of 20 minutes with Barbara Walters last year, Burt Reynolds was asked what it was that he wanted most. He paused for a moment, knowing the answer but searching for the words that could best express his greatest desire...
...want my Kramer vs. Kramer, my Ordinary People," he said finally. What Burt Reynolds wants is his Oscar. And not just to liven up his man-telpiece. One of the biggest box-office bonanzas of all time, Burt Reynolds wants only to be recognized as a fine actor of his time. It seems almost a paradox, for as he was uttering those selfsame words, Reynolds was basking in the glory of the Smokey and the Bandit films--box chase 'em variety. You could almost hear the Academy snickering. When Cannonball Run, the world's craziest automobile show since the Wacky...
...special began as a single 60-sec. commercial and, with NBC's encouragement, just grew. It is a pastiche of folksy, campfire sing-alongs; rafter-shaking black church music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence...
...adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor. Ten years ago, he sold the chain it gave birth to, however, and Swensen's, which has a shop in the Singapore airport, among many other places, recently opened...
...Iowa candy-store proprietor, thought up chocolate-covered ice cream in 1919 but got nowhere until Russell Stover, an ice-cream company superintendent, searched the firmament and invented the name Eskimo Pie. By 1922 the pair were selling a million pies a day. A Youngstown, Ohio, confectioner named Harry Burt refined the idea by developing chocolate-covered ice cream on a stick, and the Good Humor bar was hatched. In 1924 the Individual Drinking Cup Co. (what a dull name!) came up with an ice cream container called the Dixie Cup (what a great name!). From...