Television denture adhesive spokesperson Derek "Gums" Grissom (not the guy who went to the moon) flashes the smile that got him his job. Gums has had a somewhat checkered show business career. As an obnoxious eight-year-old he played Larry Hagman's pal's illegitimate child, Billy, on the hit TV show I Dream of Jeannie and later went on to various off off off Broadway shows and dinner theater "presentations". He landed his current gig a year after having all his teeth kicked out by his co-star in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Twin Cities Theatre production of Stubborn Ol' Ned. Stubborn Ol' Ned was a cantankerous talking mule whose madcap antics had them rolling in the aisles season after season throughout the midwestern United States and "lower" Canada. Ned's career-topper rendered Gus masticationally-challenged but he figures it was the best thing that ever happened to him (after that thing in the back seat of his dad's DeSoto at Pterodactyl Lake following the church weenie roast -- but that was a long time ago). "Denture adhesive promotion is great," he said with a toothy grin. "You know I ate every bite of that Honeybadger-on-a-Bun and carried on a very interesting conversation the whole time. It was like I was chewing with my own teeth." That's great, Gums!