There's a picture going around on the internet that supposedly shows Reagan greeting people on the street in Moscow (perhaps in Red Square) with Putin — who would have been a young KGB agent at the time — in the crowd.
I believe the picture has been debunked. At the time, Putin was posted to East Germany, probably steaming envelopes open, or some such.
I remember when W praised Putin and Hollywood, or at least Donald Bellisario, portrayed him as a good guy and had the JAG crew foil an assassination attempt on him. What was that title of the Don Ameche Joe Mantegna flick, “Things Change”?