REPORTING FOR DUTY.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 06-SEP-04

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Every election year, Jim Morris hits the trail as a Presidential hopeful--or two, or three. Morris, a rangy forty-seven-year-old from Massachusetts, is arguably the country's leading political impressionist. He came to notice during the 1980 campaign, with his twinkly-eyed Ronald Reagan, and later provided the voices of all the political characters on the "Saturday Night Live" cartoon "The X-Presidents." One morning recently, Morris was sitting on a couch in a friend's Manhattan apartment, preparing his John Kerry impression for "Politics as Usual," a show he's bringing to New York this fall. On a coffee table lay a collage of photographs of Kerry in a variety of attitudes: the finger-waving sage, the beach-walking poet, the...

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