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...passport after former Governor Pete Wilson started dumping on immigrants. That kind of injustice had, in part, inspired the granddaughter to get into politics in the first place. "You live for that kind of story on the trail," Bradley said. So I told him one about the immigrant bellboy named Juan Romero who cradled a dying Bobby Kennedy in his arms--a few miles from where we were at that very moment--and shoved his rosary beads into Kennedy's hands on the night of the 1968 assassination. I told Bradley the former bellboy says he's been waiting...
...jokes offensive stereotypes and the plots a bad cross of the Keystone Kops and Three's Company. Sure, Fawlty Towers was also based on silly misunderstandings and coincidences, but it carefully built toward a manic, slapstick conclusion. In the original show you felt bad about laughing at the mistreated bellboy's broken English; now you just feel...
...confusion suddenly take coherence as hecomes up with another cockamamie scheme to dighimself out of the hole he is unwittinglyenlarging. Smith's innocent, if somewhatslow-witted naivete plays well against thebackground of madmen into which she is unwittinglydropped. And Carmichael all but exudesgood-nature; his portrayal of the delightfullycorrupt bellboy is such that would charm the pantsoff any man... err...woman...
Before inviting Ford onto the stage, Colangelo and Kamath praised some of his lesser-known roles as "Colonel Barnsby" and "The Bellboy" in two obscure films. They then introduced him with a series of puns citing some of his better-known movies...
...bellboy-B.A. phenomenon should surprise no one at a time when countless corporations continue to downsize. According to a Labor Department study released last year, 30% of each new crop of graduates between now and 2005 will march straight into the ranks of the jobless or the underemployed. That would represent a hefty -- and dispiriting -- increase over the 1984-90 period, when an average of 20% of each graduating class promptly became "underutilized...