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But there’s one movie he dropped out of after the family of the man he was supposed to play slammed the ‘cruel’ storyline.

The fires that destroyed so much of Los Angeles have dropped off the national media’s front pages. The wildfires are no longer a serious threat. President Trump and the camera crews have come and ...

Spencer, a Republican political consultant who engineered Ronald Reagan’s winning campaigns for the California governor’s office and the U.S. presidency, transforming a B-movie actor into one ...

Trump pretended to know nothing of the far-right’s dystopian agenda for his second term. But in his Inauguration Day remarks, ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern ...

Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning. In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and more combative, Spencer was a ...

President Ronald Reagan with political adviser Stuart Spencer in the Oval Office in 1984. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political ...

Reagan, like Trump, was derided by the American foreign policy establishment as a B-Movie actor — an “amiable dunce” in the words of Clark Clifford — who was unfit to be president and ...