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When Weld recently urged U.S. Attorneys to get tougher on corruption, he ran into cynical replies. Says a Justice official: "Their reaction was to laugh and say, 'What about your boss? Why don't you start at the Attorney General level...
...Once we spotted it, he didn't have any," whispers Anderson, who made partial restitution years later by giving James a Cincinnati windbreaker and a good laugh...
Director Adam Fratto and Musical Director Alan Gilbert stick to a sweet and sentimental favorite in Otto Nicolai's Wives, adapted from Shakespeare's play of the same name. Shakespeare's convoluted but charming plot guarantees a laugh at least every seven minutes (five minutes if you laugh in between the ridiculously long set changes...
...gravitas. His political successors lived with a perception of decline, of a falling off from the golden age. When Warren G. Harding (a falling off indeed) expressed doubt that he had the size to be President, an Ohio political boss named Harry Daugherty told him, "Don't make me laugh . . . The days of the giants in the presidential chair is passed . . . Greatness in the presidential chair is largely an illusion of the people...
...animated as Turner's boss, who will hide a convict in a photocopy machine to protect his exclusive. Christopher Reeve brings a nice macho wimpitude to the role of her new beau -- he's Clark Kent with a preening ego. And Turner, her wit percolating through that great womanly laugh, struts in high style. Now if only the movie could match her suave maneuvering. That would be front-page news...