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...expert, was playing Reagan in the Kremlin's dry runs for the Geneva confrontation. The thought is so singular that it provoked laughs in the back corridors of the White House. One wag suggested that if that went well, Arbatov could move on to Hollywood and Bedtime for Bonzo...
...most engaging tale is "Fish Shop," which recounts a teenage Pete's frustrating romance with a sleazy girl named Fiona, who may or may not be the cousin of Pete's unsavory friend Bonzo. Already an aspiring songwriter in Acton, Pete tries to distinguish himself from the sordid company of Bonzo and his thieving friends. It is finally his relationship with Jaco, the owner of a fish-and-chips shop and a former rocker, that redeems him by reminding him of the palliative qualities of making rock music...
...ARTICLE of faith among most liberals that Ronald Reagan, while evidently a great politician, really doesn't have many more than those needed for a role in Bedtome for Bonzo. The Great Communicator, they will tell you, is also the Great Sleeper, a man who dozes off during cabinet meetings, wanders off during national debates, and takes off for his ranch rather than sit around the White House to deal with issues of global import...
...life along the Charles. A Yale spokesman recently could not recall a single full-length movie about his school, but countered that "Love Story was written at Yale, and there were several Yale names in it even though it took place at Harvard." He added that "in Bedtime for Bonzo [starring Ronald Reagan, who went to Eureka], the monkey in the end gets smart enough to go to Yale...
...shot himself); in Flower Hill, N.Y. His most memorable film role was that of the deceitful U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), but he may be better known today as Ronald Reagan's co-star-with a chimp-in the 1951 Bedtime for Bonzo...