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While Quayle campaigned with Bush in Tennessee, Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen tended to his Senate duties...
...then there is Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's extravagant musical adaptation of Eliot's book of light verse, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). The smash show has been seen by some 25 million people in 15 countries and contributed more than $2 million in royalties to the Eliot estate. Purists shudder at such commercial success and its spin-offs. Says Critic Hugh Kenner: "Eliot wanted to connect with a popular audience, but Cats wasn't what he had in mind...
...gamblers, especially Bill Burns (Christopher Lloyd) and Sport Sullivan (Kevin Tighe), notice that some of the star players want more than what Comiskey pays his team. It is the gamblers who bring the idea of a fix to two players, Chick Gandil (Michael Rooker) and Swede Risberg (Don Harvey...
...heart? No thanks, that species grew like kudzu in her small Southern town. How about the spinning wheels of the upscale drudge, playing with his toy trains and his whiny mistress? Nope, Linda's got one too many of those already: her husband, Dr. Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd). His idea of smooth talk is bedtime baby talk...
...then, none of the candidates live up to their TV models. Lloyd Bentsen, the tall, craggy Texan, could go for either tough (the late Jim Davis as Jock Ewing on Dallas) or folksy (Andy Griffith as Matlock). But his passionless style fails to register as either character. Dukakis has the mark of a man doomed to be portrayed in TV movies by Sam Waterston. And Bush is still overshadowed by the era's only politician actually to define and surpass his Hollywood model: Ronald Reagan...