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...states are picking a chief executive and most incumbents running for re-election are safe. One who is not, however, is Washington's John Spellman, 57, a Republican. In that state's nonpartisan primary in September, so many Republicans crossed over to vote for Democrat Booth Gardner, 48, the little-known chief executive of Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks on his opponent...
...Role of Honor, Gardner...
...slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks had a bankable movie hero. "To this day," argues Film Historian Donald Bogle, "Poitier remains the most important black actor. The image he presented made white audiences take black Americans seriously, at least while they...
...anyone needs the extra lustre Jackson's name carries, it is Gardner. A man who has admitted to reporters that he began his campaign horribly, lacking the name recognition of his opponent Jim McDermott, Gardner has been forced to run a media-heavy campaign financed largely by his limited personal wealth...
Jackson's "Endorsement From the Grave" is the logical extension of the gap between appearance and the reality. Jackson, were he alive today, might well have supported Gardner's candidacy. Then again, he might not have. Jackson cannot vote for Gardner; his alleged posthumous support carries no weight. However, by leeching part of the public's respect for Jackson, by trying to seize a piece of Jackson's image and make it his own, Gardner has displayed just how far the image has come in its long-standing battle with substance in our political process...