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Unfortunately, Billy Crystal wasn't so lucky in Running Scared. The growth of stubble which, I assume, was supposed to make his character Detective Danny Costanzo more believable as a tough Chicago vice cop, only made me want to take a napkin and wipe it off like a two-year-old's chinfull of chocolate milk...
...reassuringly confirm foreigners' preconceptions of America and Americans. Such notions tend to be superficial and overdrawn, just like pop. The U.S. is violent; just look at Miami Vice. The U.S. is amazingly rich; look at Falcon Crest. The U.S. is zany--and rich and violent; look at Beverly Hills Cop. It is telling that Vanessa Redgrave defends Dynasty and Dallas on Trotskyist grounds. These portrayals of American ruling-class mischief, she says, are politically correct...
...Harvard senior lecturer who combines a broad knowledge of comparative religion with expertise in the area of medieval Islam will cop a lifetime post in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, sources said yesterday...
...This scumbag giving you trouble?" an even more enormous cop growled, squeezing through the door. I was just about to say "yes," when I realized he was pointing at me; so I retreated very slowly, hands in the open, onto the street. Something similar or worse happened in every store I tried, until I ended up settling for three quarters and a dime, and that only at the price of prostrating myself in front of an entire restaurant...
Hello, Joe Bash. This ABC entry, created by Danny Arnold (Barney Miller), is not only the oddest new comedy of the season, it is also the smartest and most unexpectedly moving. Peter Boyle plays Joe, an embittered middle-aged New York cop who pounds the beat with a brash young partner, Willie (Andrew Rubin). The pair traverse the desolate city streets and cope with the unglamorous trivia of everyday police life. A woman is found dead in her apartment, and Joe and Willie debate what to do with the bag of money she has left. An old man wanders into...