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...next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets of Manhattan to the mechanical bowels of a Ford factory in Detroit, and finally into the delicious arms of Molly, a prostitute with a heart of gold. "I am not impersonating Céline," he says. "I am trying to evoke the music of his words. As Céline puts it, 'To touch a nerve, there is only one thing...
Students crowded into the Science Center to hear Chase talk about his satirical portrayal of former president Gerald Ford on SNL and his successful acting career. The forum began with a clip of Chase as President Ford on SNL in the late 1970s. Chase worked on the show during Ford's bid for the presidency against former president Jimmy Carter...
...comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year," Chase said. "I just wanted to prevent [Ford] from being president...
Chase's work on SNL was among the first political satire on public television, and was reputed to have influenced voters' perception of Ford and eventually, the outcome of the election itself...
...Ford Foundation provided the money but not the central structure [for these programs]," said KSG official Doug Gavel. "Now, the Institute will provide the central structure for all of them...