Word: blue-collar
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...first world of professional entertainment, solidarity with the little people is too often a joke. The big people forget they were ever little. In 1994 the millionaire athletes of major league baseball went on strike for themselves - not to help their blue-collar brethren in the minors. So, whatever the resolution of the SAG strike, there's something sweet in the spectacle of stars of the wattage of Cage and Hunt and Spacey helping actors whose one golden goal is to display their art, and make a few bucks, holding a bottle of mouthwash. It's like the chef...
...many jolly musicals in this dour Broadway age, but this fall there are two. Seussical is joined by The Full Monty, based on the hit Brit film about blue-collar guys who try to make a few bob as strippers. David Yazbek (from TV) and playwright Terrence McNally wrote the show. There's also an old-fashioned sweeping romance: a Jane Eyre from pop balladeer Paul Gordon and some of the folks behind Les Miserables. All you composers working on more versions of Martin Guerre and The Wild Party can put them aside. The musical is perking up. Broadway might...
OHIO Gore needs Cleveland's blue-collar families to offset rural conservatives in the Southwest who favor the G.O.P. But so far, Bush has an impressive 9-point lead statewide...
...swing vote, anyway? (Besides soccer moms, I mean.) Gore seems convinced it's the blue-collar class, and he's aiming right at them. The Bush camp envisions an "investor class" that believes in capitalism's invisible hand sufficiently to bet on both Social Security privatization and school vouchers. This would seem to give Bush an edge with disengaged types who consider federal government largely irrelevant - but don't be so sure. Gore has an in with them...
Fancy-schmancy French restaurants might be fine for gorging like a Republican fat cat, but how does one dine like a Democrat? The correct answer, of course, is go to a fancy-schmancy French restaurant - just because Democrats are singing paeans to the blue-collar class doesn't mean they actually want to eat with them. (Here the McDonald's-eating New Democrat Bill Clinton is a laudable exception...