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Scene 1. A spring morning, 1937, small office of Screen Agent George Ward, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles...
Secretary announces arrival of Sportscaster "Dutch" Reagan, movie hopeful from Des Moines. Ward, who works for the William Meiklejohn Agency, is braced to administer a classic brush-off. Send in Reagan, he tells his secretary...
...Ward has to tilt back in his chair to see all 6 ft. 1 in. of this guy who strides in under a 150-watt smile. Built-up shoulder pads in the suit. Wide lapels. Close-cut hair. All standard for the year. But there is something different. Ward decides to try to get him in the movies. History changes, though Ward hasn't an inkling -- or does...
...Rosty" the reformer? No one who has watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed...
...Rosty" the reformer? No one who has watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed...