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...Producers. Mel Brook's first feature, and an absolute must. Flawed by an overly sentimental ending, but the basic premise is golden--a Broadway producer on the skids (Zero Mostel) figures out that he can make more money on a flop than he can on a hit. He searches for the worst play ever written, and finds "Springtime for Hitler," a drama about Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgarten by a crazed ex-Nazi living in the Village. Mostel is brilliant--wooing funds from adoring septuagenarians, manipulating his timid bookkeeper (Gene Wilder) into compliance with his scheme...
Blazing Saddles. More from Mel. A slicker effort than The Producers, but no less insistent. Brooks plays on our prejudices, particularly about blacks and black sexual prowess. He revels in bawdiness of all varieties--no one else has been quite as successful in eliciting the comedy inherent in a fart--and in incongruities--outlaws slugging horses and old women, black cowboys with Gucci saddlebags...
...Ford camp naturally disputes the projections. Giving "every benefit to Reagan," Ford Adviser Mel Laird insists that Ford will enter the convention with 1,114 delegates at a minimum, Reagan with 1,058 at best. Thus Ford would be only 16 away from the "magic number." This "worst case projection," says Laird, assures Ford's nomination, since "I have absolute confidence, 100% certainty," that Ford will win the support of at least 75% of the theoretically uncommitted...
Although agreeing that Reagan cannot win the election, even so devoted a Ford adviser as Mel Laird seemed to take issue with the tactic of painting him as an extremist. "I don't consider Reagan an extremist," said Laird. "I think he's got greater popularity inside the Republican Party than any other candidate. Reagan is much more popular than Ford in the rank and file, but you can't win the election in that area. Declared Republicans make up only 17% to 19% of the electorate." The remark about Reagan's popularity was a startling admission from a member...
Finals are almost over, but three Harvard thinclads have been putting in some extra hours in physics. High jumpers Mel Embree and John McCulloh, and hammer-thrower Ed Ajootian will all try to defy gravity at this weekend's NCAA T rack & Field Championships at Penn...