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Well, start with an all-American kid like Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, the ultra-conservative son in "Family Ties"). Surround him with a girl-next-door sweetheart, a caricature family and a mad doctor friend (Christopher Lloyd, who played Jim the drug addict in "Taxi") who has created a Time Machine. Sound familiar...
...through city streets toward a blazing house; bandits rob a train, and the sheriff fires his six-shooter right at the audience. True love conquers all prejudices in a land with a built-in happy ending. In the universal language of images, the movies told over and over the All-American story of assimilation and triumph -- the alchemy of the melting...
...bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer was earning $1.25 million a year and was presiding over the all-American family of Andy Hardy...
DIED. Jack Armstrong, 74, the real (though Canadian-born) All-American Boy whose name was used for the boldhearted teenage radio hero of the '30s and '40s and who himself went on to become a worthy, if merely life-size, embodiment of his plucky namesake, serving as a much decorated U.S. Air Force officer and helping to oversee the development of atomic-powered satellites; in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The radio serial, which was largely sponsored by Wheaties, got the name for the fictional stalwart of Hudson High from a General Mills executive who had been a college fraternity brother...
...brick four-bedroom home after their three grown children moved away, the couple was involved in local civic work. Arthur had helped form the block's anti-crime program, and served as president of both a local civic league and a swim club. Recalled one neighbor: "They were an all-American family...