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...Weather vane" commercials, attacking an opponent's flip-flops, are a decades-old staple. Goldwater had changed his mind on a range of issues; Nixon said the same of George McGovern in 1972; and everyone this year will strike at his opponents' waverings -- and probably over the same issue, taxes, where all three have bobbed and weaved at one time or another...
...detection is not difficult here. Felicia Lisle, a beautiful British actress who wins an Oscar just before World War II playing a Southern belle in Hollywood's grandest period extravaganza, sounds a lot like Vivien Leigh. And her lover and frequent co-star, the great Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Vane, would need no letter of introduction to Laurence Olivier. Do we recognize bits of the brassy showman Billy Rose? Is that lovable, tormented, red-haired American comedian a scrap of Danny Kaye? Yoo-hoo, Sir Ralph...
...because, having purloined his characters, he never felt they were really his to order around. The story does not wake up fully even when Felicia, as Desdemona, runs wildly from the theater because she objects to being strangled. The gossip supplied is that Felicia was a victim of incest, Vane a man of pallid sexuality and, oh dear, some great British Shakespeareans were homosexuals. A wholly unbelievable murder clears the stage for a mushy, mope-happily-ever-after ending. Tomorrow is another book...
That is why -- despite its veneer of banana-republic brinkmanship -- the current congressional revolt is a return to pre-Reaganite tradition. The President's weather-vane vacillation has forced the House to reaffirm its constitutional role as originator of taxation and spending measures. The result: the eruption of the long-suppressed ideological debate over the size and scope of the Federal Government...
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Richard Vane...