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...Cheer (1933), he dusted off an old clinker called Smile and Show Your Dimple, put a new bonnet on it and called it Easter Parade. Two years later, it was on to Hollywood, where Berlin wrote many of the tunes that sent % Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers flying into celluloid legend. Back on Broadway in 1946, he achieved his greatest success with Annie Get Your Gun, which gave showfolk their brassy anthem, There's No Business Like Show Business...
Since the celluloid Gipper has repaired to California and the call to win things for him has happily left the language, maybe it is not too impolite now to remember that the real George Gipp of Notre Dame was a low-life gambler who openly bet on his own football games and everything else from cards and craps to flies landing on sugar cubes. Gipp seldom attended class and only occasionally graced football practice. The sentimental writer Red Smith, a Notre Dame man himself, used to refer to the great dead hero as "the patron saint of eight-ball pool...
...recognize successes that seemed impossible eight years ago. Reagan's four immediate predecessors presided over a frightening decline in presidential authority. Neither Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford nor Jimmy Carter could manage two full terms. Their serial failures left the presidency bordering on decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested the presidency's slide, he reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last week, 5 points above Dwight Eisenhower's in December...
...last week's article "Emile de Antonio: Celluloid Villains and Heroes," Special Counsel to the Army Joseph Welch was identified incorrectly as a senator. Also, the quotation attributed to him should have read, "Have you, at long last, sir, no decency...
...First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking." An ad placed by 61 Christians in the Hollywood Reporter declared, "Our Lord was crucified once on the cross. He doesn't deserve to be crucified a second time on celluloid...