PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM,
by Larry Tritten“Listen to this! Do you know who was originally considered for Bogart’s part as Rick in Casablanca?”
“No. Who?”
“Ronald Reagan.”
“Reagan!? You’re kidding!”
“Nope. And Ann Sheridan in the Bergman part. I wonder what the movie would have been like.”
“Reagan as Rick. Jesus, it’s unfathomable. What would it have been like? I can’t believe it still would have been the most popular movie Warner Brothers ever made, one of the most popular movies of all time.”
“Who knows?”
“You’ve got to be kidding!”
A tone sounded somewhere and Holloway stopped writing. The tone meant that he was wanted in the front office. Now what was it? he wondered. There hadn’t been any serious complaints for a couple of decades, not since he’d finally gotten the hang of programmi
