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...Amadeus deserved all those Oscars, millions of other moviegoers, most of them between the ages of eleven and 19, were going to the gross-outs. "Children love dirty," says Jerry Paris, who directed Police Academy 2, "and they love the silliness of this kind of comedy." Tom Sherak, president of domestic distribution for 20th Century-Fox, becomes almost misty-eyed when he talks about going to a theater a few days after the first Porky's opened. "I sat behind a group of kids who had already seen the movie three times. They knew when to laugh, when to scream...
...returns from such small investments, but, being over 20 themselves, they find it hard to tell which gross-out will make a big pile, like Porky's, and which will make a little pile ($22 million), like Hot Dog . . . The Movie. "Kids know what they want to see," says Sherak. "I can't tell you how they know. But they know...