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...sparkle among the cast is Joshua Milton as Alfred P. Doolittle. Milton stares bug-eyed above the audience most of the time, but he cavorts and mugs with such ungainly enthusiasm and impious confidence that Santa Claus would envy him. Milton transforms the dustman into such a teddy bear you want to squeeze him and forget about his unsavory scruples...
...classics. His philosophy was simple and insouciant: "My aim has been to give audiences a good time. I'd have trained seals if people wanted them." That was one of Fiedler's exaggerations, though he was not above appearing on a record jacket dressed as Santa Claus or as a jaunty Yankee Doodle dandy. Such clowning caused some highbrows to sneer. But to Boston audiences and those he visited around the country, Arthur Fiedler was Mr. Pops, the maestro of the masses...
...days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The city is engulfed by the fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge...
Cleveland's Mayor Dennis Kucinich seems to lend credence to the saying "Never send a boy to do a man's job" [Dec. 25]. Let's hope Santa Claus provided him with enough toys and games so he can amuse himself while the professionals attempt to straighten out the mess. Edward F. Greene Keene...
When Caroline Kennedy lived at the White House, she picked up the phone one night and Burns heard this request: "I want to talk to Santa Claus." Burns turned to a man in the telegraph room and asked for help. He got on the line with a jolly "Ho! Ho! Ho!" and a report from the North Pole for the five-year-old Caroline. A few minutes after Caroline hung up, the President's line was alight again. "Mary," asked a startled John Kennedy, "how did you do that...