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A Perot campaign would revolve more around person than policy and would test whether the American voters buy the notion of sending someone with no experience in national government or politics to shake up the way Washington works. (If Perot's candidacy were a movie, the title might be Daddy...
Yet from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing...
Give him a script and he can make it sing," Wright said, "He's a kind of Daddy Warbucks with hair."
In Texas, Buck Rogers meets Daddy Warbucks
Leading the nymphet brigade is Aileen Quinn, 10, chosen over 9,000 other applicants for the title role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naivet...