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Playing along with the gag, the Mets are planning a news conference today where Berton is expected to announce whether his religious beliefs will prevent him from pursuing a major league career, said Mets spokesman Jay A. Horwitz...
...Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give him a human heart...
...Rock Journalist Dave Marsh of Madonna. "But there's also a real rock side to her, a side that's independent and honest, that says, 'You don't like me, that's your problem.' " But some people in the music business have that problem. "McDonna," goes the current industry gag: "Over 1 million served." Others, whether they like Madonna or not, find her different from Lauper. "To me, Cyndi is more of an artist than Madonna," says Irving Azoff, president of MCA Records. "Cyndi Lauper will be around for a long time," says Paul Grein, an editor at Billboard. "Madonna...
Alas, this valiant attempt to find something funny about the endless columns of figures was already outdated. The sound-and-sight gag did dramatize what Ronald Reagan considers the theme of the budget he was scheduled to present formally to Congress on Monday: the painful necessity of virtually freezing overall federal spending in order to reduce gargantuan deficits. But long before the fat, gray-bound budget volumes appeared over the weekend, that theme had got lost in a spreading uproar over one component of the budget that Reagan, far from freezing, wants to maintain at a rolling boil: military spending...
...show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked by a $10 bill?") Bronson Pinchot, currently winning acclaim...