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HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. The biggest question swirling around Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Dan Quayle is not his service in the National Guard or his legislative record, it is which show-biz celebrity he most resembles. The blond hair and glamorous mien initially got him cast as Robert Redford. More discerning observers have found his bland good looks reminiscent of Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak. Actually, Quayle doesn't have even Sajak's low-watt charisma. Despite his reputation as a "telegenic" candidate, Quayle looks better from a distance; as the camera closes in, the uncertain eyes and thin, twangy voice...
...event, he typically garners a third of the final award, which can run into the millions. He claims to win 95% of his cases, a figure that is all the more impressive in view of his reputation for taking "impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk...
...Rivera that her dream as an actress is to play a character rather like herself: "I speak English perfectly well . . . I'm not dying from poverty . . . I want to play that kind of Hispanic woman, which is to say, an American citizen." This is an actress talking; these are show-biz pieties. But Moreno expresses as well a general Hispanic-American predicament. Hispanics want to belong to America without betraying the past. Yet we fear losing ground in any negotiation with America. Our fear, most of all, is of losing our culture...
...remains devoted to Toddy, his wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show-biz sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed Sweet Little Sixteen more times than Judy Garland ever sang Over the Rainbow -- but mostly for middle-class whites whose average age skirts closer...
Clearly, Bill Cosby is more than a show-biz success story; he is a force in the national culture. Like Ronald Reagan, another entertainer with a warm, fatherly image who peaked relatively late in life, Cosby purveys a message of optimism and traditional family values. At a time when real-life families are weathering problems of drugs and divorce, the Huxtable clan on The Cosby Show is the very model of a strong, close-knit, parent-dominated unit. The fact that the family is black, without making a particular point of it, is an encouraging sign of maturity in matters...