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...relief fund; he notes that the average SAG members earns only $5,000 a year In the nick of time, like the delivery boy in a Domino's Pizza spot, star quality arrived. Jay Leno donated $10,000 to a SAG strike fund, and soon Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney and Helen Hunt had ponied up amounts of from $10,000 to $200,000. Now that famous faces were attached to celebrities, the media woke up to the strike. So did some of the citizenry: a 16-year-old boy, who saw Richard Dreyfuss present the union...
Secretary Norman Mineta, however, still has reason to hope. Many former VPs have kept the former president's cabinet when the president died or was deposed during office. Mineta can always pray for Clinton to catch a sudden case of pneumonia as Harrison did from making a speech without a hat on. Or, since Ford did keep all of Nixon's cabinet, he can hope for a second impeachment...
...number of Americans became dissatisfied with the modest lines of the White House. There were proposals, which seemed to grow dramatically with the years, for grand palace-like structures to house the President, his staff and family. The discussions grew quite serious in 1889, during the Administration of Benjamin Harrison. His wife Caroline adored her position as First Lady but wanted more living space. Mercifully, all the grandiose dreams died in the face of costs and a growing sense that the country was deeply fond of George Washington's original creation. Theodore Roosevelt's brood dented the mansion here...
...Wish Upon a Star As befitted an evening of heavyweight entertainment industry support for the Democrats, the musicians were introduced by a plethora of movie stars. Some, such as Michael Douglas, Jessica Lange and Harrison Ford, showed seasoned chops in blending introductions and political endorsements. Lange spoke to the need of women to protect Roe v. Wade; a downbeat Ford expressed his belief that Gore is committed to campaign finance reform, and that the exorbitant sums both parties raise could instead be channeled to the causes that really need and deserve such money...
...reeds of his harmonica and sings like he means it, eschewing the whimsy of his later efforts. But the real revelation is Jesse Ed Davis's stinging guitar work; this is the version of "Statesboro Blues" that the Allman Brothers copied, and Davis went on to appear with George Harrison at the Concert for Bangladesh before his untimely demise from drugs. No wonder this band was the only American representative in the Rolling Stones' "Rock 'n' Roll Circus" movie; unfortunately, they never made another album with this kind of fire...