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...years after the Saturday Night Massacre, Cox is still the familiar, almost folksy figure who wouldn't compromise with the devil. He sits somewhere among the folds of an enveloping tweed jacket, with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with a bright red bow tie, and a crewcut that went out of fashion with the two-term President, in a dusty, book-lined office in a corner of Langdell Library. If Harvard academics could design a hero of their-own, who met the real world and won, surely he would look like Archibald...
...views on the Catholic Church have come to be accepted even by many Catholics, his anti-Semitic views remain a problem for even his most devoted supporters. Says New York City Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum: "The anniversary will be marred by the haunting specter of Luther's devil theory of the Jews...
...scenario is not too elaborate or cynical for the byzantine world of show biz: sponsor recalcitrance triggers stress. Tapes are leaked, positions taken, battle lines drawn, articles written. No movie since CBS's 1980 Holocaust film Playing for Time has stirred such a dust devil of ideological p.r., but the stakes are even larger here. The Day After cost an opulent $7 million, and its promotion budget may ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks...
...Miss America expresses thespian designs. With the exception of Bess Myerson (1945), winners seem to find sustaining a career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking the image ever since. Mobley's runner-up, Anita Bryant, is another...
...this week. There is no party planned as far as he knows, but, he says, with a Yoda-like smile, "I wouldn't oppose one." He predicts that Ronald Reagan will run again and win. But Sam is loyal to his party. Says he: "I guess if the devil ran as a Democrat, I'd vote for him." The former Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., first publicly showed an interest in his spiritual roots in 1970, when he attended Jewish Defense League meetings. Then his 1979 Slow Train Coming album suggested that he had become a born-afresh...