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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked if that happened in Watson's case, Portesaid: "Yes, I think...
...time Dale Turner (Gordon) gets to Paris to play an open-ended gig at the Blue Note in 1959, he is both a bop legend and a physical wreck. Too much booze and junk, so much energy spent to expand the boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight...
...against Florida's beloved Governor Graham, a gung-ho campaigner who makes Ronald Reagan look like a melancholiac. He pumps palms and kisses babies with good-ole-boy abandon. He dresses in Cuban garb and struts down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...
...meetings and a nighttime passage through a delivery entrance at the U.S. mission to the U.N. There was George Shultz in the Soviet mission and Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.S. headquarters. There was maddeningly incomplete information. From Shultz: "It's under discussion. It isn't settled yet." From Shevardnadze: "Yes, yes, yes. It is a possibility." From a Soviet spokesman in Moscow, there was even a triple negative: "We do not see progress, but we do not believe such questions cannot be solved...
...seized on an INF agreement as an excuse rather than a precondition for a summit. When one American journalist remarked on the difficulties of separating an INF pact from the negotiations on long-range strategic weapons and Star Wars, a high Soviet official replied in an almost plaintive tone, "Yes, but we need something...