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Bleary-eyed loyalty is nothing new to Allis, though. Colleagues know Sam best for his engaging wit and his tendency to immerse himself in a good story. While on the presidential campaign trail with Walter Mondale in 1984, Allis grew a beard, overate on the campaign plane and "became somewhat Orson Wellesian," recalls a comrade. In other phases, he's been lean and mean. "Sam is indefatigable, and his enthusiasms are boundless," observes George Russell, who edited this week's cover package. "He throws himself at things. That's one of the reasons he's so good at what...
Loesser's output as a Hollywood songwriter, in the years before the composer-lyricist-librettist ganged up on Broadway, needs no revival. It already ornaments every TV late show. Loesser's catchy titles and skewed wit helped lodge many a song in the musical muscle memory of anyone who loves vintage pop: Heart and Soul and Two Sleepy People (music by Hoagy Carmichael), I Don't Want to Walk Without You (Jule Styne), Jingle Jangle Jingle (Joseph Lilley), Hoop-Dee-Doo (Milton DeLugg). And when Loesser began marrying his own music to his words, he hatched even more smashes: What...
...problem; they illuminate their roles. Fox, an icon of sunny impudence, plays a blend of his two most famous roles: the sassy kid from Family Ties and the cherubic go-getter in the Back to the Future trilogy. And Hurt, Hollywood's white-collar star, mines wit and pain from a static character. The actor can get wondrously glum when he plays a smart guy flummoxed by fate, which is why he should have been cast as the hero-victims in Presumed Innocent and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Instead he got The Doctor, whose style -- earnest...
...specific and disconcertingly universal: the emergence of a friendship between two preteen girls, one black and one white, amid all the social influences that tend to divide them. Angela Goethals, 14, is affectingly sincere as the white narrator. As her friend, Chandra Wilson, who turns 22 this week, has wit and fire and the promise of major stardom. W.A.H...
...profitable and newly born FORTUNE a critical success, Harry Luce, then 36, was on the verge of becoming the nation's most powerful magazine publisher. Clare Brokaw -- journalist and playwright, future Congresswoman and ambassador -- at 31 was Manhattan's paradigmatic gay divorcee, renowned as much for her merciless wit as for her delicate porcelain beauty...