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...President of the United States to warm up the audience. On the other hand, not many comedians are senior to Ronald Reagan. Besides, says George Burns, "we fellows in show biz have to stick together." Reagan's 90-second videotaped routine will kick off a one-hour CBS special titled Kraft Salutes George Burns' 90th Birthday, to be broadcast next week. Did the nonagenarian jokester have any pointers for the Great Communicator? Explains Burns: "I don't tell him what to do, and he doesn't tell me how to sing the Red Rose Rag." Also doing their schtik...
...that is no guarantee of a seat. Reason: the airline often gives out reservations to more customers than it has room for on a plane. Seats are assigned at the airport on a first-come, first-served basis to passengers with reservations. Veteran People flyers arrive at least an hour in advance to make sure they can get on board. Customers with reservations who are denied a seat are entitled to compensation: generally a place on a later flight and a free ticket good for a future round trip on any of People's U.S. routes. All airlines overbook...
...former high-ranking People executive thinks that the airline's personnel problems may be only beginning. Says he: "Burr has brainwashed employees into working 60-to-80-hour weeks by calling them all managers. They're in Disneyland, but his spell can go only so far." The former executive asserts that People's management is not nearly as democratic as Burr says. "There's only one way to do things at People Express, and that's Don Burr's way," says he. "Not only does Burr dislike being second-guessed, he dislikes being first-guessed...
...made the screen kiss stimulating in the old days was that the consummation was left to occur in the viewer's imagination. Consider the effect if Rhett Butler had carried Scarlett up the stairs and then the camera had followed them into her bedroom to record the next half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere...
...Minister Brian Mulroney and key members of his Progressive Conservative Cabinet to the government-owned retreat on the lake's snow-covered shore. Faced with Parliament's return from Christmas recess this week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal of where the government was, where it should go and even, as it began its second full year in office, who would make the journey...