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...formula is simple enough. "You expect fried rice with your Chinese dinner, and you expect certain things, like a belching scene, in your teenage comedy," says Jeff Kanew, director of Revenge of the Nerds and the upcoming Gotcha! "They're basically about guys trying to get laid. When I became involved with Nerds, the script already had a party scene, a peekaboo scene, a panty raid, a food fight, a beer-guzzling contest. The studio's instruction to me was, 'Give us Animal House.' I gave it to them but tried to layer it with some humanity and real characters...
...audience at the Bridger Elementary School in Portland, Ore., is even tougher when a friendly man in a nice suit latches on to a little boy and growls, "I gotcha!" The roomful of first-graders turns thumbs down, but not on the villain. They think the boy has made himself too easy a mark. He gets higher grades in a rerun by standing back and shouting, "Let me alone!" as the man, played by Teacher Jon Merritt, tries to lure him into a make-believe...
...capture was quick and dirty, so Jaffe claims. He was returning to his condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the bounty hunters beat him. Local police, alerted by Jaffe's daughter, refused to intervene when he appealed to them at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Kear and Johnsen took him aboard a chartered jet waiting to fly to Florida...
...show he'd figure out everything. Never wrong, never out-foxed. Not even by the upper-crust criminals wearing Pierre Cardin suits who would sneer at the deductive efforts of the clod named Kojak. Until it was too late. And at the end, Kojak would permit himself a grim "gotcha" as the inevitable police dragnet closed in, even reaching to the hallowed environs of Central Park West...
...rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner for two-or such Miami spas as the Cafe Chauveron, where a $100 tab for two is standard...