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...Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. The President got a little sentimental himself, saying, "As a great star at the same studio where I started [Warner Bros.], he was never too busy to hold out a hand to a young fellow just trying to get under way." Gee, a good guy all the time...
...fantasy life. Inevitably, there are breaches. "You know, everybody thinks you're gay," Vocal Coach Seth Riggs told him one day during a break in a vocal lesson. "I know," Jackson laughed. "The other day a big, tall, blond, nice-looking fellow came up to me and said, 'Gee, Michael, I think you're wonderful. I sure would like to go to bed with you.' I looked at him and said, 'When's the last time you read the Bible? You know you really should read it because there is some real information in there about homosexuality.' The guy says...
Vicki Young, a member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, agrees. "There was a report issued in Washington on Legal Services--I think David Stockman wrote it--and basically what he said was, 'Well, gee, don't you think we can let the bar take care of the problem and get rid of all these expensive legal services programs? Of course that's blatantly impossible. Even if the bar could handle the demand, who would link up the indigent community and the lawyers? Besides, most of the lawyers in private practice don't have the expertise necessary to handle the legal...
Such stuff is harder to pull off than sex-and-money jokes, and Act I occasionally betrays the strain. Random Star Trek and sportscasting segments come across more like The Groove Tube than pastiche; gags spliced in from other humorists without apparent reason--including Tom Lehrer's "Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya" and Monty Python's "No! No singing!"--seem like mere cribs...
Cleary recalls first recognizing Code when he saw him skating around. "I said, 'Gee, that guy can skate pretty well, who's he?' and it turned out he could play hockey pretty well, too." Cleary supposedly mispronounced Code's name most of his first year at Harvard, until the player's father corrected the coach...