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...have so many opportunities in this election cycle there is no reason why you can't take what we're giving you and put it to the test out there," said David Mercer, deputy national finance director for the Democratic National Committee, in a seminar on press relations...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
From the director of his Children's choir back home in Mercer Island, Wash., as quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Everyone liked him. He was so sweet and brilliant...
...They drop by Club One to see a lip-synching, black drag queen named Lady Chablis. They head to Hannah's East to hear Emma Kelly, dubbed the "lady of 6,000 songs." They ask residents how they can track down the voodoo priestess Minerva and want directions to Mercer House, the elegant home on Monterey Square where a fatal shooting occurred. And almost invariably, they walk around with copies of "the Book...
Except for a few dissenters, the citizens of Savannah have welcomed the influx of Midnight enthusiasts. Locals give guided tours of the book's notable sites, like the Bonaventure Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...