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...pair of prime examples is The China Fantasy by James Mann, a former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and The Writing on the Wall, by British journalist Will Hutton. The two volumes are both nominally about China, but their aims are to influence policy in the West. Their subtitles make that much clearer: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression gets second billing on Mann's book, while Hutton's subtitle is Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy...
...Hutton and Loesser reconvened at MGM in 1950 for Let's Dance. Theoretically it was a Fred Astaire musical, but Loesser didn't go highbrow. He gave her a patter number with these lyrics - "I can't stop talkinaboutim antalkinaboutim antalkinaboutim, I can't stop talkinabout the man that I adore" - as Astaire stands by in understated disbelief. The singer and the songwriter never worked together again, which is a shame, since Hutton might have inspired a snazzy Broadway score from Loesser and kept her own career in flourish. In a way they did duet once more, once removed. Hutton...
...thing about movie stars' relation to the audience is: we don't have to live with them; we just watch them do their best for us. "My private life has been hell, really hell," Hutton told Osborne. "But my professional life was wonderful, because the audiences understood I was working for them with all my heart. ... I just love 'em, Bob, and the only way I could show 'em is from a stage, I guess...
...Hutton was 79 at this time, and she knew she was nearly spent. But she had that incorrigibly chipper spirit she'd broadcast so fortissimo in her films. "Finally you're gonna die from something. I'll die from stage fright, but it won't be anything else...
...Actually, it was colon cancer that took her. But Betty Hutton is still strutting - fearlessly - in the juke boxes and revival movie houses of her fans' memories. And I guarantee: her admirers will be worn out before...