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During his five years as the head of the Justice Department, Meese has been implicated in more scandals than a soap opera starlet. By resigning, some have written, Meese will make the Reagan Administration--and Bush--look a lot less corrupt...
...could not be the celebrated Jeane Dixon, since the Reagans lost faith in her powers some years back. Was it Joyce Jillson, a starlet turned celebrity astrologer who quickly let everybody know that she had "spent a lot of time at the White House" after 1981 and that her charts had recommended George Bush as Reagan's 1980 running mate? Neither the President nor the First Lady recalls ever meeting Jillson...
...world of movies that she hardly notices the world of reality. The juxtaposition of these two fine performances is absurdly wonderful, as when Bunny indignantly interrupts Bananas' comparison of electric shock therapy to a concentration camp oven to describe "Doris Day's Night of Terror," when the starlet couldn't find her curlers anywhere...
...role of The Actress, Jacqueline Sloan wisely avoids the stereotypical starlet image of Marilyn Monroe. She presents Monroe as a strong woman who is capable of being vulnerable. Sloan's Actress is a woman of intelligence and resource. And it's probably better that Sloan plays upon Monroe's intelligence since she looks more like the waif-like Natalie Wood than the blond bombshell...
...summer of 1908. Attention quickly centered on the women (skating people prefer you to say ladies), though dimpled Sonja Henie was just 15 in 1928 when she won the first of three gold medals that launched her multimillion-dollar movie career. In at least two respects, the blond Norwegian starlet of Sun Valley Serenade is still the ideal. East Germany's Katarina Witt, reigning world and Olympic champion, is ( studying to be an actress. And U.S. Challenger Debi Thomas, Witt's primary competition in Calgary, likes the sound of multimillions...