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...Tennessee, August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy...
...misunderstanding and delays (please put them in writing)." And put them in writing they did, the most star-studded list of memo writers in movie history: the Warner brothers themselves; producers, directors and writers; and a roster of stars that included Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and George Raft. The best of those tens of thousands of messages have now been collected by Film Historian Rudy Behlmer, whose Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951) (Viking; $19.95) is, to any fan of film, an open sesame into Aladdin's Cave...
Sometimes the stars should have remained as silent as Rin-Tin-Tin. Raft, reminding Jack that he had been promised nothing but big pictures, demanded release from a thriller set in San Francisco: "I strongly feel that The Maltese Falcon, which you want me to do, is not an important picture." That role was also recast, and The Maltese Falcon made a big star of Humphrey Bogart...
...that Montana's shift from Republican red to Democratic blue is the result of the influx of people like him who moved to the state 10 to 15 years ago. My wife and I have lived in Montana for most of our 60-plus years. We don't snowboard, raft or eat sushi, but, by golly, we've been to the Big Apple, and we like New York City. Montana, though, will always be our home. Nowhere in the world are the skies so big and blue. Our state constitution has a provision guaranteeing privacy that is among the most...
...That December the Soviet-dominated government of Poland cracked down forcefully on growing unrest. Reagan reacted as impractically as Carter had, ordering U.S. companies to stop helping the Soviets build a natural-gas pipeline to Western Europe and later asking European allies to join the boycott by renouncing a raft of potentially profitable deals. They refused...