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...Hogan-NCPAC connection has itself become a hot campaign issue that plays right into Sarbanes's hands. Every time Hogan picks up another conservative PAC endorsement or appears on a NCPAC TV spot. Sarbanes charge that Hogan is a shill for alien manipulators gain credibility. In addition, Hogan's tilt to the New Right links him with President Reagan. That's good news for Sarbanes, too, because like people in many other hard-pressed states. Marylanders increasingly blame Reagan for high unemployment. Sarbanes's spokesman Bruce Frame notes that the top campaign issues are "jobs, jobs, and jobs," and says...
...number of satellite characters keep orbiting Ignatius' girth. There is Burma Jones, a young black who has to take a low-paying job at a Bourbon Street strip joint or be arrested for vagrancy. As a sidewalk shill for the acts inside, Jones seeks his revenge: "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage." Then there is Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself...
...along the way-Fozzie, the apologetic bear: Gonzo, the not quite turkey; Miss Piggy, the karate queen in the lavender gloves; Dr. Teeth and his Electric Mayhem band; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the melon-brained mad scientist, and his twittering assistant Beaker. A human villain tries to kidnap Kermit to shill for his chain of French-fried frogs' legs restaurants. When things look black, Kermit says in despair, "All I can think of is millions of frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with Muppets. Bob Hope sells ice cream...
...paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet Show pals and such assorted human characters as Elliott Gould, Carol Kane and Telly Savalas on his journey to Los Angeles. At one point the Muppets are riding in an old Studebaker...
...Shanghai, where his father worked at odd jobs and his mother supported the family by selling cloth to dressmakers, Blumenthal landed in California at the age of 21 in 1947 with $60 in his pocket. He worked up through two dozen menial jobs, among them serving as a gambling shill near Lake Tahoe and handling the lights at strip shows featuring Lili St. Cyr and Sally Rand. He got a scholarship to Princeton, earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, taught for a while but switched to the more exciting world of business, joining a subsidiary...