The Washington Times reports that during a screening of a 1964 Ronald Reagan movie, The Killers, "a prestigious crowd of actors, actresses, writers, reviewers, scholars, researchers and film preservationists. . .erupted in cheers when Mr. Reagan 'the actor' was shot and killed."

Absent the applause, it was already an eerie scene to relive, considering Mr. Reagan, later as president, was shot and nearly killed in 1981 by John Hinckley Jr.

But that's not all. The audience also broke into "malicious cheers," one man in attendance tells Inside the Beltway, when Mr. Reagan was threatened at gunpoint and pushed out of a speeding car.

According to the plot summary, Reagan did play a "rich double-crossing bad guy", so maybe it wasn't personal.