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Article: Please don't call him a movie star.(Fred Dalton Thompson)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- September 5, 2007
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FRED DALTON THOMPSON will join the race for president of the United States, with an official campaign launch expected Thursday after the obligatory pre-announcement on "The Tonight Show."
Clearly, Thompson fills a void among Republicans, many of whom are suspicious regarding the conservative credentials of Rudy Giuliani (pro-choice!), Mitt Romney (Mormon!) and John McCain (all kinds of bad liberal-ish stuff!). What he does not do--despite several recent media accounts that have said as much--is introduce a "movie star" to the field.
Cary Grant and Bette Davis were movie stars. So is Scan Connery. Among Thompson's contemporaries, Harrison Ford, Jack ...