While the plane flew to Washington, Chris Mathews interviewed Tom Selleck who considered himself good friends with the Reagans. Tom said he filmed some "Just Say No" spots for Nancy, and he and his wife had dinner with them. One most poignant thing: Tom Selleck said he wished the Hollywood community had acknowledged President Reagan's death in some way, he wished he had been honored at the Tony Ceremony on Sunday evening.
A bit later, Mathews interviewed Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw. Brokaw said Reagan was always proud of his acting career, always loved Hollywood, and all his friends there. Brokaw said if Reagan had one regret it was that Hollywood had never acknowledged him for his accomplishments after he gave up acting.
That sort of jolted me...I hadn't thought of it on my own. A Hollywood actor was Governor of California twice, and won in landslides both times. He then became President twice, winning in landslides, and the Hollywood community, so fond of awards, honors, and cermonies has never honored President Reagan. I shouldnt' be shocked, but I am.
Those Hollywood FOBs are such small people!
Chris Mathews asked Selleck if Reagan ever talked about anything but politics. Selleck said..."we never talked politics", we talked about everything but politics.
Last night Bette Midler (whom I love, no matter how idiotic her politics are), said she's going to be working to have a President "elected" this year, not assigned to us like a homeroom teacher so she's going to be doing benefits for Kerry. She said this on Letterman last night.
My husband and I watched the snippets this morning of Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild coming to pay respects at the Reagan Library. My husband said, "that's it? No other Hollywood types could be bothered??" Imagine if it was Clinton. It would be wall-to-wall limos and fancy clothes. The "little people" wouldn't be able to get a shoulder in edgewise.
This world is such a weird place sometimes.
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