Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McAuliffe, who wanted to reward old party supporters and "energize" prospective ones, suggested that the White House offer jogging, golf or coffee with the President. He also named 10 big Democratic Party supporters who might be the first to jog, golf or coffee. Clinton, who leaped on the idea as if it were the last cupcake on the dessert cart, scribbled in further instructions: "Get other names at 100,000 or more, 50,000 or more...Ready to start overnights right away...
...sleepover. Among the 273 visitors who brought their pajamas during the Bush Administration, a few were G.O.P. donors. Others were supporters such as Rush Limbaugh, a man so crucial that when he arrived in June 1992, Bush even carried his bags. But like Henry Ford, Clinton took an existing idea and perfected its mass production. In the Clinton White House, 938 guests trooped through. They included the famous, like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg and Billy Graham, and the relatively obscure, including numerous personal friends of the Clintons and Chelsea. But at least a third of them were moved to make...
...medical clone, a baby created to provide transplant material for the original. Nobody advocates harvesting a one-of-a-kind organ like a heart from the new child--an act that would amount to creating the clone just to kill it. But it's hard to argue against the idea of a family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing this are not easy to argue," says John Fletcher, former ethicist...
...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...
Even so, he rejected scads of previous sitcom offers. "I've been joking that I even got pitched 3rd Negro from the Sun," he says. One idea had him and Greg Evigan--a white actor currently playing a deranged gay hunk on Melrose Place--paired as two men who discover at middle age that despite obvious dissimilarities, they are brothers. Katzenberg's offer appealed because it allowed the comic the freedom to cook up the sitcom he desired...