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...bound in soothing blue and bore the Presidential Seal. Its language was restrained, dignified, sometimes even gentle. But its message was scalding. Rarely has a presidential commission so sharply criticized its creator. The 288-page report of the President's Special Review Board on the Iran-contra affair describes an incredibly inattentive Ronald Reagan, a hear-no-evil Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, a devious former CIA Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these...
...America to a neurotic glandular case from New York, everyone seems to have their own answer to the Big Questions of Life. And so after wading through the varied and conflicting Weltanschauungen described above, the reader may be tempted to appeal to some sort of higher authority. As continual creator of this column, Dewitt has the advantage of having existed everywhere since the dawn of time (not to mention to added plus of owning a fantastic collection of Maurice Chevalier records). So what does this eternal sage think of life, love, death and The Big Apple...
...BEST OF DAN AYKROYD (Warner Home Video). Not the New Dan Aykroyd (the charismaless costar of such films as Ghostbusters and Spies Like Us), but the Old Dan Aykroyd, creator of Papa Conehead, E. Buzz Miller and dozens of other satirical gems on Saturday Night Live. A fitting tribute to the most inventive of the SNL originals...
...city fathers may not appreciate the etymology lesson that opens CBS's new mini-series, Fresno. But Creator Barry Kemp (a writer-producer who has worked on Taxi and Newhart) could not help noticing that Fresno, the world's raisin capital, wound up last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody...
Casper the Friendly Ghost is an amiable, almost cherubic-looking cartoon character. But his creator, Harvey Publications, felt downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...