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...Reagan copies of every Inaugural speech from George Washington's to Jimmy Carter's, a dozen advisers submitted memoranda, Speechwriter Ken Khachigian prepared a draft. Flying back to California from Washington two weeks ago, Reagan read the pile of paper. Then the old actor, who has a superb inner ear for the crowd-pleasing phrase, put the whole mass aside and started out from scratch on a blank sheet of paper. Said he to aides, half apologetically: "I've got to do it in my own words." He kept scribbling away at Pacific Palisades, while movers bustled...
...almost as though he were observing his government's disintegration as a spectator. Reflecting on his listless response to the most important political crisis of his career, an Israeli academic noted: "I've watched three or four Prime Ministers in their decline. Begin used to be a superb parliamentarian and a very effective speaker. The situation today is a very pathetic business." One possible factor was Begin's questionable health. Over the past four years, he has suffered two heart attacks and a stroke, and he is under the constant supervision of his doctors. Some politicians speculate...
There were possibilities here. Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States; Madeline Kahn is his dipso wife, Gilda Radner his ditsy daughter. Superb comedians play supporting roles: Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Bob Dishy, many more. And Buck Henry keeps threatening to prove himself a Renaissance man for this dark age of comedy. He has shown his talent in screenplays, magazine writing and, most convincingly, as a frequent guest on the Tonight show, where his deadpan surrealism is most at home. Henry may need collaborators-a Mike Nichols, a Johnny Carson-to spark his wry, reactive humor...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Mary Tyler Moore, 43, superb TV comedienne who shone when she branched out to Broadway (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) and Hollywood (Ordinary People); and Grant Tinker, 54, TV producer and co-founder with Moore of MTM Enterprises; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Gaudet is gunning for his third straight Canterbury Trophy, given annually to the top Ivy netminder by a group of ex-Harvard goalies. His 3.03 goals against average two years ago led the ECAC, and a superb pressure performance in last year's playoffs (including a shutout of RPI) helped the Green to the conference finals...