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...probably want to sidestep the Hollywood years. You don't need any more "Bedtime for Bonzo" revivals. But why not capitalize on your undeniable success as a former me ocre actor-turned-corporate spokesman? Underscore the point by making campaign stops with Karl Malden of American Express Travelers Checks and Chrysler lover Ricardo Montalban at your side. Throw in Lorne Greene and his kennel of Alpo enthusiasts, and you've got a team as American as pre-packaged apple...
...Republican fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, the President got a partisan laugh by joking, "Believe me, Bedtime for Bonzo made more sense than what they were doing in Washington." The reference, of course, was to a 1951 movie in which Ronald Reagan played a professor who tried to educate a chimp. The wisecrack was part of an attack on congressional Democrats, and as such was a bit unfair since Reagan is partly to blame for the present budget confusion. Back in February, he offered Congress a budget containing increases in military spending so large, cuts in social outlays...
...spirit, too, seems as jaunty as ever. At a White House screening of The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reagan drew laughs from his guests with the deprecatory quip: "I tried to get Bedtime for Bonzo, but it wasn't available." While plugging his economic policies at another White House gathering, he spotted a teenager in a front row. "There's a young lady," he,said, "who's really a pretty good reason for everything that we're doing to see if this country won't be as good to her and her friends...
...slob/ Someday you might have Reagan's job/ So please vote for Reagan's tax-cut plan." Six singers, dressed in top hats and tuxedos, invaded three congressional office buildings Wednesday morning, armed with kazoos and cymbal-playing mechanical monkeys. Only Bonzo was missing. Some Congressmen, however, were not amused. Los Angeles Democrat Edward Roybal, 65, took to the House floor that afternoon to denounce the stunt. Said he: "We are dealing with serious economic issues, and some of our loyal opposition seems to think it is time to send in the clowns...
More often, Shales stings his victims with wit. Investigative reporters who pounce on their prey in ambush interviews are practicing "bonzo journalism," said Shales. "Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune...