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...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
LIKE A TIN PAN ALLEY TROUPER, ROSS PEROT HAS A craving for the limelight and for Larry King Live. His latest gig casts him as head of a new watchdog group, designed to badger Bill Clinton and Congress about federal spending and the deficit. Before a crowded Dallas press conference, a pleased Perot unveiled new versions of the old props -- the fiscal charts, an 800 number and TV commercials -- that helped him capture 19% of the vote in November. Then he regaled reporters (or at least himself) with a scratchy rendition of Patsy Cline's smash hit Crazy...
...fourth year in a row. "I love being Captain of Show Business for one night a year, but it is hard to keep doing it better," he says. Gilbert Cates, producer of the Oscars show, says Crystal is "brilliant at it, an absolute joy to work with, and a trouper. He did the show last year with the flu and a fever of 102." If Crystal does it, he makes Oscar history -- the only host eligible to win awards as Best Actor, Director, Writer and Producer. But if he doesn't win, there's always next year. He's considering...
Each of the former Presidents has a special following: Nixon, the influential foreign policy establishment; Reagan, the Republican right wing and the broad segment of the populace that still holds great affection for the old trouper; Ford, a grass-roots network of pols whom he helped during his four decades in Congress. Standing behind Bush on the convention stage in August, this trio would give the final campaign a rousing kickoff...
...when Hewitt came calling with an offer for her to become 60 Minutes' first female correspondent. Joining the old-boy network of Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner and Ed Bradley was not easy, and reviews of her performance were mixed. Producers found her, as usual, to be a trouper -- willing to go anywhere, endure any hardship for a story. "She has a lot of cold blood," says producer Anne de Boismilon. "You can never feel fear coming from her." Others, however, grew impatient with her for endlessly tinkering with stories. "She could drive a producer crazy fixing, then fixing again...