Word: moorehead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backed by a powerful supporting cast: Ruth Warrick as the prize society wife his fortune buys him; Dorothy Comingore as the heart-and-hair-of-gold lounge singer he wants instead; Joseph Cotten as his intellectual school chum dogging him through life like a nagging conscience; and Agnes Moorehead as the mother whose rejection forms the foundation of the empire he builds...
...Already he has laid the first strokes of revolutionary discipline on the backs of his fellow Republicans by skipping over some more senior members when selecting committee chairmen. So Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois will be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee instead of the ranking G.O.P. member, Carlos Moorehead of California...
...what looked like a bow to the tobacco industry, the Speaker-to-be passed over Moorehead a second time in choosing the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The outgoing Democratic chairman, John Dingell, was the impresario of this year's subcommittee hearings on whether cigarette companies were manipulating the nicotine level of their product. The new head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before...
Supporting player Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) is scheming to supplant Celeste, and has enlisted snaky, horny David Barnes (Robert Downey Jr.), the show's line producer, in a plot to bring back Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline), once the soap's leading man and the star's lover. Reduced to playing Willy Loman at a Florida dinner theater, he is eager for a comeback. This presents a practical problem: Jeffrey was rather definitely written out of the soap when his character was decapitated...
...ordinance, effective May 5, doesn't exactly outlaw cruising. But when the traffic gets bumper-to-bumper bad, police will hand out warnings. Second offenders will be fined. Still, cruisers are defiant. "I've waited all my life to cruise," said Billy Moorehead, 17. "We're going to stay...