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Former Admiral John Poindexter was just granted permission to use the ex-president's personal papers to prove that Reagan authorized several arms-for-hostages deals. Poindexter wants to prove that he did not initiate the Iran-Contra fiasco. Who did? Wait for the Reagan Diaries...
Late in the first act, the players break through the fourth wall, but even the contrived intermission is a welcome interruption of the trial scene in which the writers, again mixing in politics, draw heavy-handed parallels to the Iran-Contra hearings...
...investigative reporter who covered the Iran-contra and Pentagon procurement scandals, Gup logged 35,000 miles in ten weeks traveling around the globe. He began toward the end of the ivory trail, in Tokyo and Hong Kong, where more than 400 tons of ivory were imported last year. Visiting warehouses where tusks were stacked to the ceiling, "I got to see the ivory the way the Far East sees ivory -- divorced from the animal and remote from the killing," Gup says. "Most of the consumers are so far from the source that they cannot imagine its origin in axes...
...writers are more comfortable with them too. Carvey's Bush impersonation galvanized the troupe into some sharp political satire on the '88 campaign. In one inspired sketch during the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan (ah, that's Phil Hartman) puts on his familiar bumbling act in public, then turns into a whipcracking boss in private, directing every detail of the covert operation, down to computing interest on the money stored in Swiss bank accounts. The show's movie parodies have also had some shrewd twists: Carvey, for example, playing Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant in Rain Man -- who turns...
EVEN the oblivious reader will notice the parallels Clancy draws to the Iran Contra affair--the book's bad guy is a carbon copy of John Poindexter, right down to rank and service...