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...ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
...addict knows, Kojak is a dapper detective who exudes animal charm and a street-wise sixth sense. The man whose investigative exploits led to the series, however, is no cop, and he is no well-tailored charmer. He is Reporter Selwyn Raab, 40, who looks more like rumpled Peter Falk than Telly Savalas. His tenacious reporting has brought him a dozen awards and the pleasure of seeing two victims of law-enforcement abuses walk out of prison...
...reporter resembles the TV cop only in his knowledge of New York's streets. As a teen-ager on the Lower East Side, where he still lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter, Raab remembers being "surrounded by the kind of legendary criminals you read about-bookmakers, con artists, Jewish and Italian gangsters. I grew up with guys I later covered." The son of Polish and Austrian immigrants, Raab boxed in the 60-lb. class for the city parks department (17 wins) and later attended City College. Afterward he worked on Connecticut and New Jersey newspapers...
Rafto hit his stride and peaked in the important Heptagonal Championship a week and a half ago. Despite a dismal Harvard team effort, Rafto crossed the finish line 21st to cop All-Ivy honors...
...appear as a couple of working stiffs fighting back against the indignities of existence in a big city their children are molested, flashers approach their wives, their apartments are forever being burglarized. So they and their neighbors band together to form an auxiliary police force. The uniforms and the cop paraphernalia make guys whom politicians have called "the little man" all their lives feel a little bit bigger Law and Disorder lets Carroll O'Connor step only slightly out of his All in the Family role. O'Connor's cab driver has the same inflection and bitterness...