Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Nancy was born in New York City; her parents divorced soon after her birth and she grew up in Maryland, living with an aunt and uncle while her mother pursued acting jobs. As Nancy Davis, she was an actress in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as Donovan's Brain, Night into Morning, and Hellcats of the Navy. In 1952 she married Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild, and they had two children. Nancy was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975. In that capacity, she began work with the Foster Grandparents Program.
Nancy Reagan became First Lady of the United States in January 1981 following her husband's election. She was criticized early in his first term largely due to her decision to replace the White House china, despite it being paid for by private donations. Nancy restored a Kennedy-esque glamor to the White House following years of lax formality, and her interest in high-end fashion garnered much attention, as well as criticism. She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady. Always protective of her husband, more controversy ensued when it was revealed in 1988 that she had consulted an astrologer to assist in planning the president's schedule after the 1981 assassination attempt on her husband. She had a strong influence on her husband and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.
Larry King (born November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards. He began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978. From 1985-2010, he hosted the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN.
King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City, to an Austrian immigrant Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, and his wife Jennie Gitlitz, a garment worker, who emigrated from Belarus. King grew up in a religiously observant Jewish home, but in adulthood became an agnostic.
King's father died at 44 of heart disease, and his mother had to go on welfare to support her two sons. His father's death greatly affected King, and he lost interest in school. After graduating from high school, he worked to help support his mother. From an early age, however, he had wanted to go into radio. King is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Ronald Wilson Reagan ( /ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
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Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2008-presidential-election, activism, african-american, apartheid, based-on-newspaper-article, birmingham-alabama
One quiet voice can ignite a revolution
Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.
Cecil Gaines: America has always turned a blind eye to what we done to our own. We look out to the world and judge. We hear about the concentration camps but these camps went on for two hundred years right here in America.
Gloria Gaines: Stop calling him a nigger cause he ain't no nigger.
Carter Wilson: [on John Kennedy] They say this new boy is smooth.
Thomas Westfall: Hattie, c'mon, I need your help with my shit. C'mon!
Annabeth Westfall: Stop crying.
Cecil Gaines: I'm Cecil Gaines. I'm the new butler.
Gloria Gaines: Now you take that trife low class bitch out of this house.
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The Log Jam is gay Republican bar where randy (and Ayn Rand-y) lonelyhearts gather to have drinks, talk to Nancy Reagan, and explain all the reasons why they hate the poor. Can three gay conservatives find love and understanding in a liberal gay world?
Writing a memoir isn't easy.
The film they didn't want you to see!
Ronald Reagan: If you don't mind, this administration has to pee.
Alexander Haig: Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
Phil Hartman: [singing] I hide behind these wigs and this make-up, but tonight, I'm gonna let myself shine through. They're gonna see the real Phil Hartman tonight.::Steve Martin: I wouldn't do that, Phil.::Phil Hartman: Okay.
Ross Perot: You want to hear some music? Well today you're gonna get all the music you want... [Radio plays static] I don't believe. Is that how the game is played Admiral? They can't put a transmitter out here so good hard working, decent Americans can listen to some good old country music and I think that's just sad.::Admiral Stockdale: The Government's in... GRIDLOCK!
Ross Perot: Lesson for today: do not try to ditch a war hero. Tenacious with a capital T.
Admiral Stockdale: I'm hungry!::Ross Perot: Now, Admiral, we ate at Denny's a half hour ago. You had a double cheese burger. Your belly's full. I rest my case.::Admiral Stockdale: Where are we?
Billy Idol: I think you're a stupid, tight-assed old fart.::Frank Sinatra: You're all talk, blondie. You want a piece of me? I'm right here.::Billy Idol: Don't provoke me, old man.::Frank Sinatra: You don't scare me, I got chunks of guys like you in my stool.::Billy Idol: Alright. I'll rip your bloody head off!
Bill Clinton: Let me tell you something, there's gonna be a whole bunch of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton. And fast food's the least of them.
Bill Clinton: [In a McDonalds restaurant, admiring a woman's baby] Well she's certainly is beautiful enough to be a princess. Say you gonna finish these fries?::Kevin O'Brien: Hi, Mr. President. I'm manager of this store and I just wanna thank you for stopping by... Again.::Bill Clinton: Thank you, Kevin, you got a real American family place here. Say is it too late for an Egg McMuffin?::Kevin O'Brien: Well normally we stop serving breakfast at eleven, but for you...::Bill Clinton: Thank you, Kevin.::Kevin O'Brien: Should I skil up some of those big sausage paddies you like?::Bill Clinton: You read my mind!
[in a McDonald's restaurant]::College Girl: Um, Mr. Clinton. I'm a sophomore in college and I may have to drop out because my parents can't afford the tuition.::Bill Clinton: Speak of the devil, that's one of them McLaine sandwiches isn't it?
[in a McDonald's restaurant]::Bill Clinton: For example, your McNugget was released from Britain and intercepted by war lords. This filet fish sandwich from Italy, war lords. Doesn't matter how much food you send, a McBLT, a hot apple pie, it's just gonna end up in the hands of: war lords! Now with the broad based military force, we can make sure that this McRibsandwich gets to the people who need it.
[in a McDonald's restaurant]::Body Guard #1: Sir I think we should continue. We've only gone an eighth of a mile.::Bill Clinton: You buys want a real run? Race ya to the Pizza Hut!
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In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed. This biographical account follows his life before and after the shooting leading up to the passage of the Brady Bill which regulates the sale of handguns.
Keywords: 1980s, assassination, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, handicap
Okay, my suitcase is packed by the door
I'll be gone in just a minute
I'm not sure who I should feel sorry for
Me for leaving, or you 'cause you don't get it
You say you need your space
Well okay, here it is
Chorus:
(But) What's it gonna feel like
When you turn out the light
And that long stretch of lonely rolls in
No one's gonna love you
Nobody's gonna love you
No one's gonna love you anymore
Than I did
You say you haven't found somebody else
That it's just symptomatic
Of someone who can't commit all of themselves
Well ain't that dramatic
I think that after I'm gone
It's gonna hit home and you'll know
(Chorus)
You say you need your space
Well okay, here it is
(Chorus)
Than I did
Okay, my suitcase is packed by the door
I'll be gone in just a minute
I'm not sure who I should feel sorry for
Me for leaving, or you 'cause you don't get it
You say you need your space
Well okay, here it is
Chorus:
(But) What's it gonna feel like
When you turn out the light
And that long stretch of lonely rolls in
No one's gonna love you
Nobody's gonna love you
No one's gonna love you anymore
Than I did
You say you haven't found somebody else
That it's just symptomatic
Of someone who can't commit all of themselves
Well ain't that dramatic
I think that after I'm gone
It's gonna hit home and you'll know
(Chorus)
You say you need your space
Well okay, here it is
(Chorus)
Than I did
No one's gonna love you