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...then," recalled Reagan. "I sometimes went way afield and did a humorous twist on what he asked for. I wasn't long in noticing he would have several of those read in class, and I was always called upon to read mine. Maybe that's where the ham began. I would write with the idea that I was going to read this aloud...
...court about the Hollywood settlers. Actors like Conrad Veidt and Otto Preminger, fleeing from Hitler, were hired to impersonate Nazis in war movies. Ernst Lubitsch, eager to propagandize against the Third Reich, directed a delicate, tentative farce, To Be or Not to Be, starring Jack Benny as a Polish ham actor. In the film a German general appraises Benny: "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." For his efforts, Lubitsch was pilloried by critics for finding "fun in the bombing of Warsaw." Sometimes the very difficulties with a new language benefited Hollywood by cutting dialogue...
...traditionally go with the Pudding production. "Although we have storylines and plots, weak though they may be," he says, "the audience is usually with us most of the time and salvage a storyline for the sake of having a good time and seeing people just go out and really ham it up." He adds "There's something about the immediate reactions that you get from an audience while on stage that seems to be stronger at the Pudding than at any of the theaters around...
When Noelani Rodriguez, better known as Lonnie plays her bass guitar. She seems the consummate ham some one not likely to be interested in much beyond a dynamic performance Playing funky and often eccentric countermelodies, she mugs with band members and bounces around the stage with a maniacal energy out of proportion to her diminutive height...
...organized race rarely experience the hallucinations and despair that have traditionally afflicted single-handers. One reason is that they are seldom cut off from the real world. Jeantot, for example, talked by radio daily to friends in France. He was also in regular contact with a Rhode Island ham radio operator. All the racers were equipped with a sophisticated electronics system known as Argos that prints out satellite weather information and provides the boat's precise location in latitude and longitude, relieving the mariner's ancient fear that he is lost. "They don't even need...