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...prospered, Wilmot became an important Democratic Party fund raiser. He has entertained New York Governor Hugh Carey and Robert Kennedy in his Rochester home. After his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1968, Hubert Humphrey relaxed at Wilmot's 400-acre hunting reserve at Mendon, N.Y. Wilmot, his friends and associates contributed large sums to the 1974 reelection campaign of Senator Daniel Inouye, member of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, and in 1976 to a fund set up by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, then majority leader, for the campaigns of Democratic Congressmen...
...Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser to pay off her old campaign debts, inviting homosexual activists to the White House. Only two weeks ago, she vehemently denied that her resignation was imminent. "If you reporters would quit bothering me," she stormed, "I could get back to work." Four days later, she resigned...
...more with his eyebrow than most mortal comedians can do with their whole bodies. Unlike most TV comedians, who dominate the small screen but little else, Belushi easily makes the transition on to film. His character, Bluto, is the frat's resident gross-out and chief hell-raiser. He saves his best leers for the appropriate times: stuffing his fat face prior to a cafeteria food fight, or precariously balanced on a ladder peering into a room of half-naked sorority girls...
...descendant of the romantic cowboy, and for the most part he preserves those storied virtues of ruggedness, independence and dawn-to-dark hard work. But he is also a modern businessman, worried about cash flow and capital costs and, of course, interest rates. Says a typical cattle raiser in Oregon: "My family has been in this business for three generations, and we haven't been out of debt for one year...
Beatty was drawn into politics by Viet Nam and Bobby Kennedy in 1968. He took a year and a half off to work for the '72 Democratic ticket. George McGovern was impressed by his newfound fund raiser's seriousness: "Warren not only cares about issues, but his judgment is very perceptive." Mostly to be available for McGovern, Beatty rejected a number of major films: The Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser...