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In tonight's martini the part of gin and vodka will be played by white rum.

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White rum from Puerto Rico will finally play the role its distinctive clarity and smoothness have so well prepared it for.

In fact, white rum has already proven itself in rehearsal. It beat gin and vodka on taste and smoothness in a nationwide test. That's because all white rum from Puerto Rico is aged for at least a year-by law.

White rum is ready to take a leading role in the martini.

Like any new star, all it needs is a chance.

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"I think Dustin Hoffman is funny, but when I first read the script of All Over Town, and Murray threw in the idea of Dustin's directing, my first reaction was no. I felt I wanted to be involved with a director that was gonna teach me something, and except for Al Freeman, Jr. [in The Dutchman] I'd never had a director who stretched me. Knowing Dustin from Jimmy Shine, and his kind of craziness, I wasn't too sure. But he's got an incredibly creative mind, and he was inspiring.

"I think Blazing Saddles is an outrageously funny movie. A lot of people don't like it, but I've come to a conclusion. If there are blacks who don't like Blazing Saddles, and whites who don't like Blazing Saddles for similar reasons, then I'm saying both of those groups are hung up.

"A lot of people also think a play like All Over Town is getting comedy at the expense of an ethnic group. One lady who came to interview me said she didn't approve of the play, but it made her laugh anyway. I invited 35 welfare mothers to see the show and they loved it. I figured if they weren't offended--

"I don't take social issues that seriously. What is serious today will pass. If I dealt with everything seriously, I would want to die. And I don't want to die. Today's militant about some issue is tomorrow's liberal about nothin'. These guys saying we gotta blow the capitol down, we gotta do this, and then they get famous, and they write their books and they make a lot of money and people in poverty are still in poverty, so I tend to feel that a lot of it is hogwash signifying nothing."

"Cleavon," I said, "you are one interesting fellow, but if you want me to get out of here, you must tell me what amuses you most in this whole wide world."

"Women," he said. "The thing I most enjoy is women. I could sit in a room with a lot of women and talk with them all, or I could just sit and talk with one of them. Women are not boring to me, they're always alive about something. You say something to a woman and she doesn't like it, she flinches, she's touched by it, she has a reaction, she's not cool. I learn from women."

I have to tell you, this guy is just like me, he too can hold an audience spellbound.

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