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...there some more. This time Kemp let go first. Dole even did a soft-shoe shuffle to the strains of Soul Man and smiled at his running mate, who was clapping along. The two seem to be working out a little vaudeville act--Dole the straight man, Kemp the comic pratfaller. When Dole said he'd bet all he had that they'd win Colorado, he added with a grin, "I won't bet all Jack has." Kemp bowed his head, as if penitent about having made some cash-giving speeches. Mostly, though, he's tapping a foot, pointing, craning...
...good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically, he wanted to work hard to do the part right. On the set he approached the veteran Gene Hackman, who was playing Superman's comic-villain archenemy, and asked if he wanted to rehearse. "Not really," said Hackman. Reeve asked, "Mr. Hackman, what was it that attracted you to the role of Lex Luthor?" Hackman answered, "You mean besides the $2 million...
...spirit of Coyote and Road Runner than the Big Bang? Science instructs us that the universe is made of beer suds, or of string. Time bends like a pretzel and vanishes into a black hole. What if the universe is the hysterically funny work of a trickster-comic...
Ross Perot's political maneuverings have enough ups and downs for a comic 18th century novel, but his quest for office this time around seems as serious and cold-blooded as a corporate takeover. Pundits and others have wondered whether Perot learned any lessons from 1992. He did, but not the lessons his would-be handlers might like to hear. Perot's private campaign slogan this time could...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...