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...worrying about the quality of their collective character. Two years ago, the President's victory seemed to beckon every junior demagogue from his cave and crevice. Oh, the seething and panting of the NCPAC hit squads, the rough stuff of Jesse Helms. No more. Hardly a "right-wing kook," as they are dangerously dismissed, won national election last week. Neither, for that matter, did a left-wing kook. Wherever else the body politic has wandered lately, it seems now to wish to congregate at the center, and if the center has shifted to the right, the new centrists...
...that?" asked the President, once offstage following his campaign exhortation. White House Political Director Ed Rollins explained that the bearded Arnold was a candidate of extreme-right views. Reagan eyed Rollins' own beard and winked: "Well, I should have known he was a kook. He was wearing a beard...
Dramatist Dulack also fashions a flirtatious scene between Balthazar and Allan's ex-wife Liz (Joanna Merlin) and invents a hilarious kook's kook (Deborah Hedwall). The ethics of deprogramming do not trouble Dulack, as perhaps they should...
What can you get for $25 million these days? If you're Producer Don Boyd and Director John Schlesinger, assembling a kook's tour of characters and situations for your episodic comedy about American life on wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise, a town that paints itself pink, an elephant on water skis, and some funny car crashes. In a large, bland cast (Beau Bridges, William Devane, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), only Beverly D'Angelo stands out as an overripe woman...
...kook is Sally. Who else but Sandy Dennis? Sally's Congressman husband ("presidential material") has deserted her for another woman, who, according to Sally, "is as neurotic as I used to be." Coming from a pill-popping vodka swigger, this brings down the house. Dennis' ability to widen her eyes in engrossed shell shock, like a child who has dropped an ice cream cone, and to filter her voice through obdurate adenoids makes her an enduringly dotty delight...