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With that self-inflicted reminder of the Watergate era-echoing advice by John Ehrlichman to John Dean that L. Patrick Gray should be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind" rather than be quickly confirmed by the Senate as FBI director-President Reagan last week tried to reassure anxious former campaign aides. He was suggesting that none will be fired from his present position because of the tempest over how his staff secured Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book...
...Christopher (Superman) Reeve is a goody-goody prince, a sort of prissy Cary Grant in a mail doublet. Bernadette Peters casts her spell as the princess who responds a mite too ardently to his wake-up kiss. The two also play their evil doppelgängers, giving a psychological twist to the old notion that fairy-tale characters are either all good or all bad. In this case, they are both. A gruff woodsman (George Dzundza) narrates the tale with the accent of a Borscht Belt comedian. "I gotta great princess for you," he tells the prince. "A dowry...
...wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand, Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, is proclaimed Miss Universe. The alien reads the data sheet Downes filled out before the competition. "Occupation...
...those who changed Reagan's life, and he will never forget it. Fraser not only formed a drama club but urged his student writers to turn their imaginations loose. "I developed a great taste for writing then," recalled Reagan. "I sometimes went way afield and did a humorous twist on what he asked for. I wasn't long in noticing he would have several of those read in class, and I was always called upon to read mine. Maybe that's where the ham began. I would write with the idea that I was going to read...
...whistles and rhythmic chants of "Eddie! Ed-die!" Nor is it when his mouth gapes into an innocent, megawatt smile; that is the occasion for a huge communal laugh. No, it is when he is just standing there, waiting for some other actor to set up a screwball twist to the plot, that Eddie Murphy's effect on people is easiest to measure. In those quiet moments, 2,000 moviegoers turn into so many pussycats, purring contentedly, basking in the delight that is both provided and experienced by a 22-year-old black man in what is only...