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Ronald Reagan would have picked Lester Lanin and Dom Perignon. Jerry Brown might have insisted on box lunches in a Sacramento park. George Deukmejian celebrated his first year in office at a Holiday Inn serving steak, salad and below-the-Borscht Belt Comedian Shecky Greene. When it comes to suavity and symbolic gestures, the current Governor of California is no match for his two famous predecessors. But it hardly seemed to matter last week. Describing the budget-priced dinner as "a little bit offence mending and a little bit of entertainment," the Republican Governor welcomed 200 legislators with a confident...
...like him," says Lyle Alzado, a particularly wanton defensive lineman. "But if he tries to run around my end, I'm going to have to take his head off." A similar warning-"beheaded" was the word used-has been issued to Wide Receiver Charlie Brown from Cornerback Lester Hayes, a sticky individual who used to ladle caramel all over himself until the league observed he was intercepting passes without knowing...
...historical touchstones: the grand ballroom turns of Astaire and the sidewalk acrobatics of Gene Kelly in essence. But in fact, and in direct lineage, nothing connects the video present with the movie past so directly as three films made in England. There were the two kinetic musicals that Richard Lester directed for the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and Performance, the definitive rock-'n'-roll nightmare of 1970, wherein Co-Directors Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell had a pop star, played by Mick Jagger, swap identities with a hood. Jagger...
...good civil libertarian idea," says Dr. John Talbott, presidentelect of the American Psychiatric Association. "The trouble was that city and state governments failed to set up a safety net for those who don't cope well." On Los Angeles' Skid Row, says Social Worker Herb Lester, "I get a lot of people who say, 'They gave me a bus ticket in Oklahoma and said to come here because they couldn't help me any more...
...Bernstein realizes her aversion to making the news business her career was a "typical adolescent problem of needing to separate from my father's identity," says Bernstein. Her father, Lester Bernstein, worked for Time magazine, NBC News and finally served as managing editor and Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek from...