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...Power's accomplices, Gilday is serving a life sentence for pumping the shots into patrolman Schroeder. Her former roommate Saxe is now working for a Jewish charitable organization in Philadelphia; captured in 1975, she served seven years. She sent a note to Power last week asking for a reunion, and Power has said yes. Stanley Bond is dead. He blew himself up in 1972 while trying to build a bomb to blast himself out of prison...
Nicely directed by video whiz Steve Barron (Billie Jean, Take on Me), the movie is a kind of SNL family reunion. More than a dozen veterans of the show play supporting roles; best is David Spade as a masterfully unctuous bureaucrat. But Coneheads is not Saturday Night satire. It is an updated Saturday Evening Post cover; it sees suburbia as a goofy Utopia. In E.T. and Edward Scissorhands (this movie's most obvious parental units), the alien beings stood in metaphorically for blacks and other minorities and had to flee home from benighted prejudice. Here, though, law-abiding citizens...
Gergen's arrival will bring turmoil in that key indicator of the White House pecking order: office assignments. "Now it really gets ugly," a staff member predicted. The joke was that the big tent going up on the South Lawn for the President's 25th Georgetown class reunion last week was actually a temporary shelter for homeless senior staff. On Saturday, chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty decreed that Gergen will move into the office of former communications director George Stephanopoulos, where the very fashionable shade of gray paint has barely had time to dry. Stephanopoulos, now a senior policy...
Yellin and Tucker, like Edelman, called for a sense of social responsibility and commitment to freedom, with Tucker delivering an imaginary "25th reunion" speech dwelling on the loss of American democracy in the year 2008 due to a failed commitment to social justice...
...20th reunion for the Bronx High School of Science, he recalls, "I was considered to be the greatest success story there...