Word: hollywoodizations
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There was also the memorable, if laughable, reference to "family values"--an appeal to tone down Hollywood and an admonition against teen pregnancies. I could just imagine a bewildered Dan Quayle watching as the same man who targeted the Republican cry for "family values" as his principle object of ridicule in the 1992 campaign now spouted it as if he had coined the phrase...
...session of Congress and assorted national heroes; Dole appeared for 10 minutes in an empty office with a TelePrompTer and snarled through a performance that Rush Limbaugh called "lackluster," and others much worse. Clinton was buoyant, shameless, cleverly conciliatory, as he proclaimed the end of Big Government, attacked sleazy Hollywood profiteers, extolled the virtues of the family and a balanced budget. Clinton's speech was so Republican in form and function that Dole could have just welcomed him aboard the G.O.P., joked that House minority leader Dick Gephardt should be giving the response and said good night...
...tougher on Clinton, aimed at Iowa and New Hampshire. The Senate staffers denounced it as a "full-throated attack" that Dole himself "winced at," they say. The single line that Senate Chief of Staff Sheila Burke and Co. found most over the top: "Ronald Reagan may have come from Hollywood, but his values were shaped in middle America. Bill Clinton may come from Arkansas, but no President has been closer to Hollywood." With Dole in the room, Burke said that kind of talk had no place in a response to the State of the Union...
...Dole sanded down the speech himself. "We took out all the harsh stuff," he says. "We took out the stuff about Hollywood. We took out a lot of stuff about Clinton because we wanted to tone it down a lot. We didn't want it to be a legislative speech. We wanted it to be about values in America and where we go from here." On Tuesday Dole floated a draft past Gingrich, who, according to a Dole aide, said, "I wouldn't change a word of it. No one will ever say you don't have a vision again...
...Hollywood has been cashing in on mad King George and Richard III; now roomfuls of diaries and papers dating back to Queen Victoria could become scripts, beginning with Edward VIII: The Inside Story. In merchandising, the royals have not done nearly as well as The Lion King. That would change...