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Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...
...Garry Trudeau may be the most private public person in American life. His acerbic and politically acute comic strip, Doonesbury, a national institution for some 15 years, appears in nearly 900 newspapers and is the first comic ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Spin-offs have been ubiquitous: more than 30 books, an NBC-TV special, a rock album and a Broadway musical, all written by Trudeau. His jabs have provoked outrage from targets as varied as Frank Sinatra and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Yet with just a handful of exceptions over the years -- mostly college...
...late Trudeau has been breaking his self-imposed silence, and on behalf of a controversial project: Rap Master Ronnie, a cabaret revue lampooning the Reagan Administration. Begun in 1984 as an off-Broadway lark, the show has been staged in nine cities, including Washington, where it opened in October and has been extended into next year. Trudeau constantly revises, adding for Washington a parody of bargaining with the Soviets for the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff. "I feel passionate about this," says Trudeau. "I want people to think about events during the Reagan years that we tend to forget...
Doonesbury has earned Trudeau a reputation for ferocity: in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, a character in the strip toured a largely vacant expanse purporting to be "Reagan's brain." The President has returned the compliment. A devoted reader of what he calls the "funny pages," Reagan blasted the strip in October 1984, and has since said that he always skips over Doonesbury. Yet Rap Master Ronnie is outwardly as genial as the President it satirizes. This Reagan (Jim Morris) smiles incessantly; he may be befuddled but he is never cruel. That was a strategic choice by Trudeau...
...with the reasons for Reagan's popularity. While bright, articulate liberals continue to write books that chronicle every blunder Reagan has ever made, the President remains untarnished. No one really cares that Reagan thinks that trees are the greatest cause of pollution or that he forgot that Pierre Trudeau was the prime minister of Canada. In fact, it could be argued that Reagan's image as a bumbling old geezer actually strengthens his popularity. It reinforces his image as a common man, a man of the people...