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- July 20, 1992: A Week of Multi-Party Politics
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- July 20, 1992 Olympic Special
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 90
- A Week of Multi-Party Politics
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- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> With some 15,000 press hounds sniffing around the arena at
- this week's Democratic Convention in New York City, what
- self-respecting celebrities could stay away? Not many. Opera
- diva Marilyn Horne warbles a welcoming national anthem on
- opening night. Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN offers an encore on Day
- Two. Party of the Week honors go to the downtown Planet
- Hollywood fete for the homeless at which Alec and William
- Baldwin, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Reeve, Jennifer Grey and
- Mario Van Peebles have promised their presence. Some celebs will
- actually manage to squeeze in a little politics: the California
- delegation includes actress-Clinton delegate Mary Steenburgen
- and moviemaker-Brown backer OLIVER STONE. Actor Ron Silver sits
- on the platform committee. They should all beware: BUCK HENRY,
- the comedy writer and actor, will report live from the floor for
- cable network Comedy Central's "Indecision '92" coverage. Actor
- Robert Downey Jr. will be shooting a documentary. Lucky
- delegates from each state are being treated to lunch at a
- prominent eatery with a prominent eater: BIANCA JAGGER will
- break bread with Wisconsin at the pricey Four Seasons, while
- author Tama Janowitz dishes with Wyoming at the Union Square
- Cafe and North Carolina gets Anthony Quinn (but no snails) at
- Le Cirque. Other candidates in the face race include Warren
- Beatty and Annette Bening, Stephen Stills, Esai Morales,
- Melanie Mayron, Marsha Mason, Melba Moore. The celebrations
- began bizarrely enough with quick-lipped comic Jackie Mason,
- self-anointed delegate greeter, arriving in a blaze of venom and
- flackery on the wheels of the "original" Batmobile. Of course,
- with his kind of money, Bruce Wayne is probably a Republican.
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