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...flaccid, middle-aged cop (Paul Suchecki) glibly compares the number of used cars in a lot to the quantity of hemorrhoids or crotch hairs he has. This tally isn't his only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
Randy Howze, who plays Old Woman Pus--the prostitute or floorwasher--handles her smutty dialogue as easily as the fat cop spews his. She suspends a brazen account of her husband's set-to with constipation by rummaging bemusedly through the garbage or tranquilly scattering popcorn at the birds and Old Man Boyle. She coordinates her fickle behavior with the theme of insanity. Howze uses her spindly body delicately. She shapes her mouth into a crooked leer. And Old Woman Pus's complaint that her head is full of cobwebs emphasizes her resemblance to a spider with its graceful agility...
...shows inevitably have a certain sameness about them. Universal is responsible for 8% prime-time hours (out of 22) on NBC alone this year. Some of the good independents like Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore are also overextended -and overimitated. This gives viewers a narrow range of choices: cop and doc shows, ethnic sitcoms, nice-girl sitcoms. It has become harder to tell good from bad in this small spectrum. Still, the suspicion lingers that TV's real-if possibly temporary-trouble springs from precisely the opposite condition...
...detective story without a chase scene? Bullitt, showing this weekend at Winthrop House, without any doubt earns a 9.5 (on a scale of ten) for its chase scene featuring Steve McQueen, careening cars and the incredibly steep hills of San Francisco. McQueen's portrayal of a lone-wolf cop battling both criminals and his superiors shouldn't be missed, and Robert Vaughn, of Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame, makes an unusual appearance as the Ambitious Young...
Eddie Crane, poor son of a Cambridge cop, Harvard magna cum laude, city councilor for almost 30 years, was a power broker for as long as most Cambridge political experts can recall...