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- In case you’ve forgotten, this thinking thing is a good time.
Clarence Page raised an alarm this week in the Tribune. It’s an alarm that’s been raised so often it’s fair to say America by now is in a permanent state of alert. Roughly Defcon 2. The enemy galloping toward us from all directions is collective idiocy.
Mulling this over, my thoughts naturally turned to All American, the 1962 attempt by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams to repeat the success of their Bye Bye Birdie by writing a vehicle for Ray Bolger. Despite the Mel Brooks book, All American flopped.
