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...apple-pie Americana. Norman Rockwell might have painted the town's Main Street and the faces of the folks who stroll down it on this peaceful Christmas Eve. Frank Capra, Hollywood's master of sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent...
...community. The dances begin the long screening process, which will eventually whittle the 28 applicants to a final company of eight, as strangers, linked only by their love of a common career. As the audition progresses, and they are forced one by one by the demanding director Zach (Eivind Harum) to reveal their anxieties and fantasies, the actors draw closer. By the time the final selections are made, they have formed a supportive brotherhood...
Their dancing reinforces this progression towards unity. In the first number. "I Hope I Get It," the cast performs deliberately offcue. Each time a dancer stumbles or misses a step, he winces with disappointment, and glances at the competition. When Zach later asks them to introduce themselves-- "I just want to hear you talk and be yourselves"--they freeze: this is an unexpected, personal request, and as the lights fade the artists cover their faces with promotional photos, hiding behind the confidence of a typed resume...
...actress, Sousa is also remarkable. Zach's one-time lover who left the chorus for an unsuccessful Hollywood career. Cassie returns to his audition full of sadness and desperation. In the end, the musical's triumph is largely her own; she wanted to be a dancer. Zach had wanted her to be a star, and in A Chorus Line, Pamela Sousa finally is both...
...elected again and this time without a Congress of your own choosing. A record with only one precedent, back a hundred and eight years ago-1848 when old Zach Taylor another professional General was elected with Millard Fillmore, who was the Know Nothing Candidate in 1856. Your V.P. [Richard Nixon] is not that far advanced...