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During the past 46 years, Bob Hope, 93, has brought his dry wit to 285 NBC specials. This month the network airs his last, Laughing with the Presidents, a tribute to the comic's friendship with every Chief Executive from F.D.R. to Bill Clinton. Hope has called the White House his "favorite bed-and-breakfast." During no other hour of television will you find appearances by both Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tony Danza...
...time we have learned that sooner or later the guy is going to respond to her inner light." This glow is only half hidden under her shapeless clothes, half disguised by her boisterous enthusiasm for baseball, half explained by her relationship with an ego-flattening mom (Lauren Bacall, dripping comic venom in award-winning doses). "In short," notes Schickel, "the fine feathers of a star we all know to be a strong, smart and sexy woman keep peeking through her ugly-duckling getup...
...beginning of the year, ROSIE O'DONNELL was a stand-up comic best known as a Madonna pal who had been in a few movies and K Mart commercials. Now she has a nice talk show, a nice book deal worth a reputed $3 million, a nice son Parker, and most of the readers of Seventeen thinking she'd be a nice President. Who better for Annie Leibovitz and the folks at Vanity Fair to turn into Glinda the good witch? It's not even her first time in the role. "When I was in the first grade I wanted...
Moreno is able to contort his face into every manageable form of laughter, each more convincing than the last. His visage reminds one of a young Jonathan Winters, as does his sense of comic timing. Von Gerbig is hilarious as his foil; her eyes move into every possible direction. She is as artless as he is artful...
...hanging. Rabbit brings Meg to new lows in ditzoid blowsiness, to such an extent that she sometimes doesn't appear to know to be afraid when she is threatened. This makes it especially difficult to believe her belle-of-the-ball past when it's mentioned, but the comic potential of the suggestion makes up for it. Rabbit shows the eloquence of stance alone, as does Nuccio. Meg's hands are permanently raised, ready for the next breakfast; Petey never emerges more than halfway out of his shell, even when walking with newspaper clutched. How did the two get married...