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Didn't Reagan and Clint Eastwood play more demanding roles? The ratings that Fred Grandy used to get as Gopher, the shambling, befuddled purser on Love Boat, will undoubtedly be better than those he gets on C-Span. The latest Republican ex-actor in Washington won a narrow congressional race in Iowa, despite criticism that he too lately sailed back into his native port...
...truisms, can always be described as a "ground-breaking study." The most exciting news on the hyphen front is that adventurous journalese users, like late-medieval theologians, are experimenting with new forms, to wit, multihyphen adjectives. So far, "actor- turnedpolitician," which can be found just to the left of Clint Eastwood's name in any story about Carmel, Calif., is the most beloved two-hyphen entry, while "state-of-the-art " is such a successful three-hyphen innovation that it may be used several times a week without risking reproof from an editor. Though of lower wattage, nonhyphenated modifiers also...
...ahead, make his day. In the roles of mayor of Carmel, Calif., Marine Sergeant Tom Highway and just plain Clint Eastwood, he is far too busy acting, directing, producing and running a town to take any flak. Not even from the U.S. Army. Seems that in his latest film, Heartbreak Ridge, he plays a lifer who won a medal in a bloody Korean War battle but who is now going through some rough times both in and out of the service. The Army refused to cooperate with the production because of script problems, so Eastwood sold it to the Marines...
OCCASIONALLY, IN CONTEMPORARY filmdom, a questionably attractive character can be made more appealing by the judicous inclusion of a 5 o'clock shadow. Take, for instance, the Clint Eastwood characters in Dirty Harry. Or look at Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously, who although certainly not at all unattractive was unquestionably transformed and transubstantiated for the better by the dark smudge under his lips...
...make cleaning your house a vibrant symphony of joyous motion, and the big uplift when my cat turned out to have one of the highest feline IQs ever tested. There's a lesson in all this: deactualize all those shoulds and musts. I believe it was Clint Eastwood who observed, "Let love make your day." I could go on like this forever...