On hearing earlier from our alter egos in the cyberspace loop that Ronald Reagan matriculated at Eureka College in Illinois, our neurons were shaken up and in disarray. How many of the neurons could envisage a smiling sports commentator, evolving into the role of the President of the United States of America.
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Our imagination and memory hoisted a flag over Santa Catalina Island (1939) when our mother disembarking from a visualbottom like craft, docking at the pier. Phil Wrigley, the chewing gum entrepreneur, had his Chicago Cubs in spring training…..bunting fungos in the cage, smarting their batting eyes, their palpitating hearts beating the four corners like Joe E Brown in “Alibi Ike”
A henchman in the role of metamorphosing the team(not having a pennant flying over Wrigley Field for a bookmaker ‘s odd of a hundred years (a “c note” on the Las Vegas strip).
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Not knowing “Win one for the Gipper” was playing out in hisfuturo, Dutch’s teeth lit up the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree like his charm could transcend the ice skaters on the rink next door.
That Eureka circuitry and college education left an indelibleyearning for the Screen Actors Guild and its high office on the mainland. Accepting the challenge, he dated and wooed Jane Wyman, an actress on the Warner lot in Burbank.
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No nunca websites of rhapsody when the J.W. identified withher role.
”Did you ever seen a blind actress who didn’t smile”? The Academy recognizing her silver screen presence, submerging her ego trip , for “Johnny Belinda”
But when “Dutch” was introduced to the masses as Mister Wyman, his own persona was shell shocked. A sensitive man in search of his own heroics, heard the intro as sarcastic and diminishing.
“Hey Eureka! Where do we go from here?”
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To the rescue, a Notre Dame football coach’s legacy (Pat O’Brien playing out Knute Rockne) “Dutch” traipsing across the lot, grasping a video of who else but himself for the Rockne producer.
“Win one for the Gipper” was a locker room chant that began as a reversal of roles (“Mister Wyman”) Abounded in maritalstardom, Dutch began wooing another actress, Nancy Davis, the daughter of a surgeon, practicing out of Chicago.
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Always playing himself, the Dutchman manifested his stance *“Is that all that’s left of me” in the dialogue for “Kings Row”*A crippling surgery of both legs.
Notwithstanding Paul Muni, Edward G Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains Jack L. Warner playing himself, the Dutchman never getting out of himself.
Indeed, pioneering his GE profile on television, playing himself… into the role of California’s Governor.
Hence thus therefore President of the United States of America.
Eureka indeed!
December 21, 2013 The City that never sleeps.
