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...November 1978 Senator David Pryor happened to share a taxicab in Washington with two men. Neither recognized the Arkansas Democrat and they began discussing their work as paid consultants to the Federal Government. The topic: How much they should bill a particular agency for their services$12,000 or $25,000? They decided that the bureau would swallow the higher fee without complaint and so, right there in the cab, they settled...
...abomination," says Richard Viguerie, a fund raiser for John Connally. "Absolutely counterproductive," echoes Larry Pryor, an aide to Jerry Brown. "An overreaction to the Nixon campaign," says Morris Dees, chief fund raiser for Ted Kennedy...
...candidates than keeping their coffers from going empty. Even though he was badly lagging in New Hampshire, Howard Baker had to give up a day's campaigning last week to go hat in hand to three fund raisers in Detroit (his take: more than $30,000). Says Larry Pryor of Brown's campaign: "A disproportionate amount of our energy goes to scrounging for small donations. We're like people that have to scratch all day for ground nuts and never get a chance to think of higher things...
...that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even the actors don't want to look at this movie's bullrushes...
...does not impersonate a rube or a lovable nitwit; his twitchy, leering mug is that of a loony who may be dangerously mad, a secret aficionado of cat juggling whose gift is for making audiences laugh uneasily. That is to say that he is, approximately, a white Richard Pryor, and how about casting the two of them to gether in a remake of The Prince and the Pauper? -John Skow