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...long drive to get their man elected President, William Hamilton Jordan, 32, and Joseph Lester Powell Jr., 33, broke most of the rules of politics. Now that Jimmy Carter has reached the White House, the two young men -just call 'em Ham and Jody-are still breaking the rules...
Aiding him is a large, name cast. Most memorable is Shelley Duvall as the rock reporter, prey to her own propaganda, who bores and beds Allen. Colleen Dewhurst also has a bit part as Annie's WASP mother, who exults in the ham she serves Allen. And then there is Keaton. She has never been much of an actress--perhaps the funniest scene she ever played was her dramatic revelation in Godfather II that she had aborted Al Pacino's baby. But in Annie Hall she is presentable enough as Allen's WASP counterpart; for once, she and Allen seem...
...thing go on your transcript? Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes will be at the Berklee Performance center on May 22 at 7 pm. And then there was the time me and the guys drove our mopeds through the reserve desk at Lamont...Remember the time we mixed the ham sandwiches on white bread in with the salami at the Hillel Deli supper? Lynyrd Skynyrd will be at the boring old Cape Cod Colisseum on June 18 at 8 pm? Oh, so you're going to be waitressing on the Cape this summer while secretly shacking up with that...
Those two rakish characters with derbies and cane are not refugees from a ragtime show but Jimmy Carter's good ole boys Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. When Rolling Stone Reporter Joe Klein suggested that Ham and Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting...
...Goldsmith founded Caven-ham Ltd. which, through canny acquisitions, has become Europe's third largest (after Unilever and Nestlé) food processor. Extending his empire, he then purchased Grand Union, the U.S. supermarket chain. Two years ago, he became chairman of Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. when his friend Jim Slater, because of some freewheeling deals in the Far East, was forced to resign-driving one of the hottest investment companies of the 1960s to near collapse...