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...defeated in the 1996 election. But many Presidents keep it within their political party. During his tenure, Jimmy Carter awarded the Medal of Freedom to liberals like anthropologist Margaret Mead, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and biologist Rachel Carson, and Ronald Reagan - apart from picking Hollywood friends like James Cagney, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart - came under fire for lauding anticommunists like Clare Boothe Luce and Whittaker Chambers...
...There were revelations aplenty, especially in the early-'30s Warner melodramas; they instructed a new generation of old-film fans in the urban snarl, panache and breathless efficiency of the young James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, plus a bunch of directors that scholars had mostly ignored. But TNT was clogged with commercials, sometimes 15-20 mins. an hour. In time, the oldies format gave way to basketball and reruns of '70s TV shows. The FOOFs were disconsolate... and ecstatic when free TCM premiered Apr. 14, 1994 (again with Gone with the Wind). The same library would be ransacked...
...April 6, 1959, broadcast had moved smoothly - too smoothly, it turned out - up to the closing number: a group sing of "There's No Business Like Show Business" by dozens of the movie elite, including James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, John Wayne and Elizabeth Taylor. As they concluded, someone noticed that the show had run 20 minutes short. (Implausible but true.) Cued from the wings, Lewis shouted to the group, "Another 20 times!" Some of the stars danced in couples; others wandered offstage. As the tone grew tenser, Jer announced "We're showing Three Stooges...
...American soldiers killed in Vietnam. For another thing, he "branded" his product as "Blue Magic," which was a purer and cheaper product that his competitors offered. Finally, Frank, who is played with a smooth coolness by Denzel Washington that eluded the more rough-hewn Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, does not come to a tragic end. Eventually, he is turned by an almost comically obsessive cop named Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), does some jail time and loses his fortune, but remains available to tell his story...
That started to change in the early '80s, with the cop drama Cagney & Lacey (see above), whose duo battled family problems and alcoholism. But the changes were still slow. Women tended to be action stars (Alias) or less complicated heroines (Crossing Jordan), or, more likely, were second leads or co-stars with men (The X-Files, CSI). Sturm und Drang remained men's work. "I've been trying to sell a new Cagney & Lacey to the networks for 15 years," says Miller. "I've developed it five different times, but it's never gotten to the point of being shot...