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...Maximillian (pun)--"the second greatest show on earth" (joke) whose low net profits (pun) are forcing it into the red. Alas, says owner Maximillian Bucks (pun), the show needs $1 million or the big top will flop. To raise the money, Bucks calls upon Natalie Yellowbud, tightropist, singer and airhead extraordinaire, to star in an extravaganza in honor of President Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile, Walter Wall (pun), decides he can't bear life at the stockmarket any longer. After embezzling $1 million, the stockbroker splits (pun) with his secretary and runs off to save the circus. Back at the top, Maureen...
...FEMALE leads fare better. Andrea Eisenberg as Natalie Yellowbud is disarmingly charming. Eisenberg is the perfect airhead, from the flower-in-the-hair Nature's Child look to the shit-eating grin. Amy Acquino as Maureen Bad complements Eisenberg very well. Cast against the blond frizzy dumb-dumb, Acquino makes a perfect villain; eyes drifting to the sky, slinking on the edges of the stage, and scheming her way through the show. Her solo number "I'm a Bitch" is probably the best of the evening...
...point still to be settled: the Eighteenth's commander. The airborne's greatest fear is that the job may go to an Air Force general who would insist on treating an airborne operation like an airlift, shuttling planeloads of men and equipment to an airhead on a commuter-train timetable. Airborne officers insist that the intricate job of establishing an airhead in enemy territory requires newer techniques-which must still be developed. Their candidate for the command: Major General Robert W. Douglass, former chief of staff of Air Forces in Europe...
Then parachutes, white, red, green, blue and yellow, blossomed beneath the planes and the air was filled with men, guns and gear. For the next two days the paratroopers established an "airhead" against a theoretical enemy who had theoretically overrun the northeast...
Major General, U.S. Army, Commanding