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- PEOPLE, Page 61The Hollywood Primary
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- By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Now it begins in earnest: the quadrennial quadrille
- between presidential candidates seeking cash or charisma and
- celebrities seeking a sense of purpose or a taste of power. Thus
- far, George Bush faces no competition on the Republican side of
- the Face Race: the only major media star backing Patrick
- Buchanan's bid is the old Crossfire-er himself -- and code-word
- wizard David Duke can't even claim that distinction. But among
- the long-exiled Democrats, the celebmart is wide open. Here are
- some of the more prominent acquisitions:
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- -- BILL CLINTON: TV producers and fellow Arkansans Harry
- Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason enlisted Evening Shade's
- Burt Reynolds, plus Dixie Carter and Meshach Taylor from
- Designing Women. Also Clintonized: Blair Brown, Richard
- Dreyfuss. Last week's meeting with Robert Redford went well.
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- -- TOM HARKIN: The Real Thing for old-reliable liberals
- Steve Allen and Ed Asner and New Wave liberals Shelley Fabares
- of Coach and Mike Farrell, erstwhile M*A*S*H-er. Roseanne
- Arnold also hearkens to the hard-hitting Iowan.
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- -- BOB KERREY: The marketing hasn't been up to the
- packaging for this early L.A. pick, who snared Willie Nelson,
- Sally Field, Ron Silver and ex-overnight guest Debra Winger.
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- -- JERRY BROWN: The Touch-Tone populist didn't meet
- supporters like this through an 800 number: Linda Ronstadt,
- Martin Sheen, Talia Shire, Sally Kellerman ("Twenty years ago,
- I asked 10 friends to help me move. He was the only one who
- showed.")
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- -- PAUL TSONGAS: "We have not sought endorsements from
- these kinds of people," says an aide. And haven't gotten any.
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