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After former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver quit last May to become a "public affairs consultant," he drove about town for a while in a dark blue Dodge, very much like the limousines that transport top Executive Branch officials. The car served to get Deaver where he was going in more ways than one: in status-conscious Washington, it was a not-so-subtle reminder of / his White House connections. Now Deaver has given up the status symbol of public power for one of private wealth. These days he rides in a chauffeur- driven Jaguar XJ6 equipped...
...amoral revolving-door world of Washington, it has become just as respectable to lobby as to be lobbied. Ronald Reagan may have come to Washington to pare down the size of the Federal Government, but many of his former top aides have quit to profit off Big Government as influence peddlers. None has been more successful more swiftly than Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, who may multiply his White House income sixfold in his first year out of government by offering the nebulous blend of access, influence and advice that has become so valued in Washington...
...couple are planning to sell the store before they marry in April. "I want to go to business school," she says. "I've got to learn how to manage this money." Will she play again? "They say good things come in threes, so . . ." Then she reconsidered and decided to quit after all. "I'm going to give everyone else a chance...
...beady-eyed ex-husband threatens to sue Molly for custody of the kiddies if she doesn't quit her position and take up something milder. He claims that her job is endangering their daughters by bringing the brutes into too much contact with them. Just so we know that choosing between job and kids is going to be hard for her, Molly says, "My kids are more valuable to me than anything." When Molly refuses to adhere to his demand that she quit, the movie gets a silly courtroom scene with big, loveable, football players blundering to the defense...
...plays a woman entering a field that is male dominated, not unlike her character in Private Benjamin, but her Molly does very little besides playing off of all the various flat and stereotypical characters in the movie. Her role requires little acting, just reacting; to her husband demanding she quit her job, to her team when they haze her, to her kid when she dyes her hair. Even her final, climactic decision to fight her husband only comes after the football team pressures her. By being, in fact, such a passive character, who hardly acts for herself, Hawn does...