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...immortal mime -- his Victorian sentimentality (of which his passion for underage girls was the most obvious, least agreeable part), his pretense to intellectuality, the torments of his vast celebrity -- are only vaguely alluded to. These are tough topics, wrong for the form (and indulgent attitude) Attenborough has chosen. Robert Downey Jr., who plays Chaplin, might have been up to them, but this episodic film gives him only cautious scenes, not an incautious character, to play...
...because he did not outline his speeches. And for the next decade, his career sounded more like crr-rash! He was fired from four Pennsylvania and Missouri radio stations and, after a five-year stint, from the marketing department of the Kansas City Royals. Not until he replaced Morton Downey Jr. on a Sacramento, California, station in 1984 did he come close to success. "Up until then," he says, "I failed at everything I did. On occasion, I had potential. On occasion, I was a guy who 'might make it if I could just learn to do this...
...START, Star Wars and the proposal in the early '80s for a nuclear freeze. His main concern, he said, was finding a balance between "national power and security on the one hand and long-term human survival on the other." Recalls a congressional friend and colleague, Representative Tom Downey of New York: "Al worked harder than everyone and shone brighter than everyone...
When actor Robert Downey Jr. arrived with acamera crew--some guessed it was form MTV--moststudents forgot about their aching feet and beganto clamor for autographs. But a few minutes later,they quickly abandoned their new-found hero. Itwas time for them to enter the convention den andgreet another, older hero--Ronald W. Reagan...
...their grant levels without losing benefits. In 1975 Congress enacted the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), which currently offers cash supplements of up to $1,192 to working parents with incomes under $21,250. A number of recent congressional initiatives would vastly expand such efforts. Bills introduced by Congressman Downey and Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller would use a combination of tax breaks and increased eic payments to beef up the revenues of working families...