XXXVI. “Remarks at a Polish Festival in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1984,” Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum online, www.reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/speeches/1984/90984a.htm.
15. THE UNTOUCHABLES
I. Helen Thomas, UPI White House reporter, “Two ‘Benign’ Polyps Removed from Reagan,” United Press International online, June 26, 1987, www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/26/Two-small-benign-appearing-polyps-were-discovered-and-removed-from/3636551678400.
II. Ronald Reagan, Reagan Diaries, 742.
III. Ronald Reagan, Reagan Diaries, 742.
IV. Lawrence K. Altman, “2 Apparently Benign Polyps Found in Reagan,” New York Times online, June 27, 1987, www.nytimes.com/1987/06/27/us/2-apparently-benign-polyps-found-in-reagan.html.
V. Thomas, “Two ‘Benign’ Polyps Removed.”
VI. Ronald Reagan, Reagan Diaries, 742.
VII. Christopher Bray, Sean Connery: A Biography (New York: Pegasus Books, 2011), 259.
VIII. Ronald Reagan, “Declaring War on Organized Crime,” New York Times Magazine online, January 12, 1986, www.nytimes.com/1986/01/12/magazine/declaring-war-on-organized-crime.html.
IX. Cecilia Rasmussen, “L.A. Then and Now: Mobsters Muscled into Film Industry,” Los Angeles Times online, January 2, 2000, http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/02/local/me-50000.
X. Ibid.
XI. Ronald Koziol and Edward Baumann, “How Frank Nitti Met His Fate,” Chicago Tribune online, June 29, 1987, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-06-29/features/8702170754_1_frank-nitti-crime-syndicate-pulled.
XII. Ronald Reagan, “Declaring War on Organized Crime.”
XIII. Ronald Reagan, “Declaring War on Organized Crime.”
XIV. Ibid.
XV. Ibid.
XVI. Ronald Reagan, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, February 6, 1985,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=38069.
XVII. Ronald Koziol, “Indictments, Convictions Hurt Mob Recruiting, Panel Reports,” Chicago Tribune online, October 7, 1985, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-07/news/8503080232_1_organized-crime-trafficking-crime-families.
XVIII. John Kroger, Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 142–43.
XIX. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks Announcing Federal Initiatives Against Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime, October 14, 1982,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43127.
16. FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF
I. Ira R. Allen, United Press International online, “Doctors Removed Two More Small Polyps from President Reagan’s . . . ,” June 20, 1986, www.upi.com/Archives/1986/06/20/Doctors-removed-two-more-small-polyps-from-President-Reagans/7959519624000.
II. Gerald M. Boyd, “Doctors Remove Two Small Polyps in Reagan’s Colon,” New York Times online, June 21, 1986, www.nytimes.com/1986/06/21/us/doctors-remove-two-small-polyps-in-reagan-s-colon.html?mcubz=3.
III. Boyd, “Doctors Remove Two Small Polyps.”
IV. Ronald Reagan, Reagan Diaries, 611.
V. “Ferris Bueller: John Hughes and Chicago,” AMC online, accessed September 19, 2017, www.amc.com/talk/2007/04/ferris-bueller.
VI. “Ferris Bueller: John Hughes and Chicago.”
VII. Stephanie Mansfield, “Mr. Las Vegas,” Washington Post online, January 17, 1981, www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/01/17/mr-las-vegas/783a4658-2a1c-4c0b-97e5-b2846c5cceed/?utm_term=.20081dc8b298.
VIII. Mansfield, “Mr. Las Vegas.”
IX. Ibid.
X. Ronald Reagan,“Remarks at the Inaugural Balls, January 20, 1981,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43524.
XI. Chase Untermeyer, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 181–82.
XII. Wayne Newton, interview by Larry King, Larry King Live, CNN, January 18, 2005 (transcript, CNN.com, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/18/lkl.01.html).
XIII. “Wayne Newton on Ferris Bueller and Bobby Darin,” video, Chicago Sun-Times, June 18, 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZL0rUsIVc.
XIV. George Will, “For Effortless Escapism, Take a ‘Day Off’with Ferris Bueller,” Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), June 26, 1986.
XV. David Denby, “Movies,” New York, December 22–29, 1986, 142.
XVI. “Ben Stein Talks About Famous ‘Ferris Bueller’ Role,” Showbiz Tonight, CNN.com, January 10, 2006, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/10/sbt.01.html.
XVII. Ibid.
XVIII. Olivia B. Waxman, “Ben Stein: Ferris Bueller Represents the Reagan Era,” Time online, June 10, 2016, http://time.com/4357446/ben-stein-ferris-bueller-ronald-reagan.
INDEX
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Abrahams, Harold, 56–58, 67
Abramoff, Jack, 136
Academy Awards (Oscars), 18, 28, 52, 56, 76, 109, 111, 114, 165, 179, 184–85, 204–5
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 230
Adamson, Hans Christian, 225
afterlife, 25–26
Air Force One, 24–25
alcohol abuse, 91, 118–19, 195
alien life forms, 74–78, 80
Allen, Gracie, 18
All-Star Party for “Dutch” Reagan, An, 111–14
Alzheimer’s disease, xiv
American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 28
American Film Institute, 12
American Life, An (Ronald Reagan), 106–8
Anders, Charlie Jane, 90
Anderson, Timothy, 153, 155, 156
Andropov, Yuri, 85
antisemitism, 56
apartheid, 230
Apocalypse Now, 180
Arab-Israeli conflict, 69–70
Arbatov, Georgi, 109
Arlington National Cemetery, 181
Armstrong, Neil, 74
Aspen Lodge (Camp David presidential residence), 101
as site of film screenings, xvi–xx, 94–95, 116, 121, 132, 143, 145, 150, 167, 171–72, 179, 197, 202, 216, 223, 225–26, 232
atheism, 15–16, 22
Atherton, William, 129–30
Aykroyd, Dan, 127, 129
Back to the Future, xvi, 139, 144–51
Back to the Future III, 151
Bacon, Lloyd, 187
Badham, John, 84
Baker, Howard, 198
Baker, James A., III, 77, 120, 133, 155, 190, 198
Ball, Lucille, 113
Beahrs, Oliver, 199
Beart, Robert, Jr., 199
Beatty, Warren, 152, 164–65
Bedtime for Bonzo, xvii, 115, 120–26, 223
Begin, Menachem, 69–70
Benny, Jack, 148, 150
“Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years,” 130–31
Bethesda Naval Hospital, 139–40, 199, 211–12, 222
Biber, Katherine, 39
Bioff, Willie, 205–7
bipartisanship, 120
Blake, William, 57
Blind Side, The, 163
Blumenthal, Sidney, 132
Board, Elizabeth, 99–101
Bonnie and Clyde, 51
Bork, Robert H., 187–88, 191–92
Born of the Fourth of July, 182, 185
Bracken, Eddie, 236
Brady, Jim, xvi, 29–32, 61
Brady, Sarah, 29, 31
Brat Pack, 167, 214
Bray, Christopher, 205
Breakfast Club, The, 214
Brezhnev, Leonid, 85
Brisley, Denny, 175–77, 179, 180
Brode, Douglas, 39
Broderick, Matthew, 84, 94–95, 211, 214, 216, 218
Brokaw, Norman, 43
Browne, George, 205
Bryant, Louise, 164, 165
Buckingham Palace, 63–65, 230
Buckley, William F., Jr., 43–44, 91
bulletproof vests, 155
Burns, George, 13, 16–20, 22, 26
Burns and Allen Show, 19
Bush, George H. W., 6, 127, 136, 139, 185–86, 221
Bush, George W., former president and Mrs., 234
Camp David, Md., 58
arrival and departure routine for, 200–202
as military facility, 181–82, 228
as presidential retreat and sanctuary, xv, 2–4, 27–29, 33, 71, 120, 133–35, 142–43, 158, 188–89, 200, 212–43
weekly radio addresses broadcast from, xix–xx, 98–101, 104, 135, 170, 172, 174
Camp David movie nights:
attendees at, xvii, 34, 74, 86–87, 120, 175, 177, 225
film choices for, xv–xx, 48, 131, 137–38, 237
as relaxing diversion, 4, 33, 138, 158
routine for, xvii–xix, 86, 143, 200, 226
see also specific films
Canada, 61, 225
Canby, Vincent, 5
Cannon, Lou, 62, 95
Capone, Al, 202–5
Captain Applejack (Shaw), 37
Carlisle, Belinda, 76
Carter, Jimmy, 59–60, 76
Carter, Rosalynn, 234
Carter, Tom, 163
Cassavetes, John, 37
Castel Gandolfo, 230
Cates, Gilbert, 13
Catoctin Mountains, 27, 55, 200
CAT scan, 212–13
Cattau, Edward, 212
Cattle Queen of Montana, xvi–xvii, 51, 146
Challenger (space shuttle), 73
explosion of, 81–83, 154, 188–91, 196–97
Chambers, Whittaker, 91
Channing, Carol, 192
Chao, Elaine, 186
Chariots of Fire, 55, 56, 63
critical and popular response to, 56
inspirational themes of, 66–68
plot and characters of, 56–58
Charles, Prince of Wales, 65–66
Charleson, Ian, 55, 56
Chase, Chevy, 214
Chicago, Ill., as film setting, 202–4, 215–16
Chicago Mafia, see organized crime
Chicago Outfit, 205
childhood, as movie theme, 77–79
Christie’s, 236–37
Christmas, 4, 181–82, 235
Churchill, Winston, 60
City Club, Cleveland, 125
Clinton, Bill, 132, 209
Clinton, Hillary, 132, 234
Coast Guard, US, 175–80
Cold War, 15, 60, 84–85, 93–94, 140, 169
reflected in films, see Rocky IV
thaw in, 157
Coleman, Dabney, 7, 47, 84, 94
College Republican National Committee (CRNC), 127–28, 136
colon cancer, colonoscopy, Ronald Reagan’s bout with, 139–42, 198–200, 211–13
Columbia (space shuttle), 73–74
Communism, 15–16, 84, 91, 170
in films, 152–72, 177
see also Cold War; Soviet Union
computers, malfunction of, 94–96
Congress, US, Ronald Reagan’s social interactions with, 119–20
Connally, John, 29
Connery, Sean, 198, 203–5, 210
Conservative Party (British), 58, 61
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 66
conservatives, conservatism, 7, 43, 47, 58, 91, 113, 219
films with ideological appeal to, 130–31, 154–55, 161, 220–22
Constitution, US, 9
Costner, Kevin, 198, 202–4, 210
Cox, Tricia Nixon, 234
Crea, Vivien, 10, 175–76
Cronkite, Walter, 13, 15–16
Cross, Ben, 55, 56
Cruise, Tom, 173, 174–75, 177, 179, 182–84
Cuban Missile Crisis, 84, 98
Curse of the Pink Panther, 97, 104, 108
Dallas, Tex., 48, 133, 136
Daniels, Charlie, 119
“Danke Schoen,” 216, 218
Darling, Bessie, 55
Darman, Dick, 133
Davis, Edith Luckett, 11, 44
Davis, Loyal, 11, 95
Davis, Patti:
acting career of, 42–43, 104–5, 108–9
conflicted relationship between Reagans and, 9–10, 41–44, 49, 51–54, 108
Jane Fonda and, 43–44, 52
N. Reagan’s eulogy delivered by, 25, 53–54, 233–34
rebellious and outspoken nature of, 41–43, 51
Davis, Richard “Dick,” 11, 21–22, 45
Day After, The, 93–94
Death Valley Days, xxiii
Deaver, Amanda, 121
Deaver, Mike, 76, 120, 133, 137, 153, 155–56, 190
de Cordova, Fred, 115, 123
Deer Hunter, The, 180
de Havilland, Olivia, 35
Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 128–29
Democratic Party, 44, 111, 120, 134–35, 165
Denby, David, 220
De Niro, Robert, 198, 203–4
Denver, John, 16–17
De Palma, Brian, 198, 202
Diana, Princess, 65
Dickinson, Angie, 37, 111
Die Hard, 173
Dirty Dancing, 167
diverticulitis, xviii, 142
Donaldson, Sam, 92
Donovan’s Brain, 232
Drago, Billy, 204
drug trade, 207–8
drug use, 42
N. Reagan’s initiative against, 8, 118–20, 235
Reynolds’s opposition to, 113
Dryden Flight Research Center, 73
Duberstein, Ken, 120, 174
Eagle, 176
Ebert, Roger, 5, 17, 22, 146, 161, 180
Edinburgh, Philip, Duke of, 63–64
Edward VIII, King of England, 63
Edwards, Anthony, 178
Edwards, Blake, 97, 104
Edwards Air Force Base, 73–4, 82
Egypt, 70
Elected Republican Women, 225
elections:
of 1980, xiii–xiv, 10, 22, 29, 58, 76, 126, 146, 149, 155, 169, 216–17, 221
of 1984, xv, 9, 21, 122, 127–29, 131–38, 140, 149, 155–56, 169–71, 217
of 1992, 210
Elizabeth, queen mother of England, 64–65
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, xiv–xv, 230
Reagans’ friendship with, 62–63, 66, 233
El Salvador, Marxists in, 15
Empire Strikes Back, The, 5
Entertainment Weekly, 131
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 129–31, 135
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 8–9
Erickson, Paul, 136–7
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:
childhood as theme of, 77–79
White House screening of, 69, 74–79
“evil empire” speech, 85, 91–92, 169
Falcon Crest, 112, 149
Family Ties, 144–45
feminism, 7–12
as theme in 9 to 5, 5, 7–9, 12
Ferraro, Geraldine, 135
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, xvi, 211, 214–16, 218–22
fight scenes, 163–64
First Blood, 180
Fischer, Dave, 201
Fisher, Carrie, 84, 87
Fitzwater, Marlin, 6
Flynn, Errol, xxii, 35–37, 126, 157
Fonda, Henry, 41, 44, 46, 47, 52–53
Fonda, Jane, 1, 6–8, 41, 46
conflicted relationship between H. Fonda and, 47, 49–50, 52–53
controversial Vietnam opposition of, 7, 43–44
“football” (briefcase for military codes), 10, 115, 176
Ford, Gerald, 220
Ford, Ha
rrison, 27, 33, 35, 37, 39, 84, 87
For Ladies Only, 42
Foster, Jodie, 31
Fox, Michael J., 139, 144–45, 150, 153
Fox Plaza, postpresidential office in, 173, 182–85
Foy, Eddie, 38
Frank, Thomas, 131
freedom:
faith and, 66–68
personal, 222
transparency and, 83
free-market economy, 58, 137–38
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The, 56
Friedman, Milton, 144
“Fritzbusters,” 127–28, 136–37
Fujimoto, Tak, 215
Fujisankei Communications Group, 228–29, 231
G7 summit, 61
Garcia, Andy, 203
Gardner, Ava, 48
General Electric Theater, 20, 224
General Von Steuben German-American Appreciation Day Parade, 216
Geneva, Switzerland, summit in, 109, 157
George Washington University, 109–10
George Washington University Hospital, 29
Ghostbusters, 127, 137, 167
critical and popular response to, 128–31, 135
plot and characters of, 129–30
political implications of, 129–31, 135, 137–38
in song parody, 127–28, 137
Gipp, George “the Gipper,” as Ronald Reagan’s most iconic film role, 6, 192–97
Girl from Jones Beach, The, 236
Giuliani, Rudolph, 207
glasnost, 162
“God Bless the U.S.A.,” 134
Go-Go’s, 76
“golden oldies,” xvii, xix, 81, 146
Ronald Reagan’s preference for, 124, 132, 150, 219
in traditional action-adventure film genre, 34–35, 38–39, 90–91
see also Bedtime for Bonzo; Knute Rockne All American
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 67, 109, 144, 157, 160–61, 171
Gorbachev, Raisa, 157
Graber, Ted, 225
Grace, Flo, 99–101
Grayson, Kathryn, 48
“Great Communicator,” 38, 73, 166
Greatest Story Ever Told, The, 17
Greenwood, Lee, 134
Grey, Jennifer, 167, 215
Gromyko, Andrei, 169–71
guns, 39–40, 119
Haig, Alexander, 70–71, 168
Hall, Anthony Michael, 214
Hamill, Mark, 84, 87
Hanoi, 43–44
Harbaugh, Jim, family of, 109–11
Harry, Prince, 65
Hayden, Tom, 7, 43–44, 52
Hayes, Rutherford B., 103
Hellcats of the Navy, xvii, 223–28
Ronald Reagan’s criticism of budget of, 231–32
as vehicle for Ronald and N. Reagan, 223, 226–28, 232
Hellcats of the Sea (Lockwood and Adamson), 225
Hello, Dolly!, 192