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Quayle, aides explained, meant to "stir a debate" over "family values" and Hollywood's treatment of them. And so he did. A New York Daily News headline set the tone: QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP! Switchboards at the White House and on TV and radio talk shows lit up with callers, pro and con. Carl Rowan, a liberal black columnist, sided with Quayle, while Hillary Clinton, wife of the Democratic presidential contender, panned him as typical of "an Administration out of touch with America" and its growing ranks of single mothers...
...films of Edward D. Wood Jr. used to be just the old kind of bad. Wood's transvestite tale Glen or Glenda (1953) made a stir with "The Strange Case of a 'Man' Who Changed His Sex!" -- though actually Glen only wanted to change his frocks. But Jail Bait (1954), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956), Night of the Ghouls (1958) and The Sinister Urge (1961) went right into the commode. "Ed was a loser in my book," says the B-movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff. "Fundamentally, there were just too many things deficient...
...single New Yorker played by Blair Brown in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, found herself pregnant two years ago, and the suspense revolved around which boyfriend was the father: the white bookstore owner or the black policeman (the law carried the day). Yet the revelation caused little stir: the show was tucked away on cable, and went off the air shortly thereafter. It took a Top 10 network series that will undoubtedly be around for years to grab the Vice President's attention. Now he needs to do some channel switching...
This reporter, mistaken for a member of theHarvard Lampoon, was initially refused entranceinto the area. Actual Lampoon members did not makea stir, although one student did sneak into theaudience wearing a green monster mask...
...That's the point. They don't want to keep their club a total secret (Honey East lists the club on the resume that she submitted to a Jackson, Mississippi beauty pageant), but they're not truly the elite until they shut people out. Beauty pageants, cocktail parties, a stir of rumors along the Eliot corridors--this sort of publicity is good...