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...network now dominates. In keeping with the overall trend, CBS will introduce two new half-hour comedies and four crime shows. The thrillers will include Shaft, with Richard Roundtree repeating his movie role as a flamboyant black private eye, and Cojack, starring Telly Savalas as "a tough but compassionate" cop. Savalas won acclaim this year in a similar role in CBS's The Marcus-Nelson Murders. Another thriller will bring Perry Mason back in a new series. Another Perry has to be found, however, since the old one, Raymond Burr, is busy fighting crime from his wheelchair...
...only demoralizing the whole FBI and undermining the discipline and respect that the top cop deserves. He is, like you and me, only human and has party preferences. That does not mean he is not well equipped to do a good and honest...
...fired from slingshots and of dropping balloons filled with water from a fifth story onto passing cars. It was precisely the boyishness of the offenses that disturbed city officials. Said Chenoweth: "It would have been more understandable if they had done something serious. You know, you expect a cop to go crooked." But is there not a little room for rejoicing that, at least in Des Moines, when a few policemen stray off the line, it is balloons and slingshots they play with instead of heroin and the Mafia...
...does not understand her own pain, she tells him that he just isn't used to thinking about people. But then she adds that Deck is everything any woman should want (especially if she already has a nice apartment). And the entire novel ends with a glorification of cop...
ALTMAN'S MARLOWE is a big-hearted schlemiel who would never have thought of being a cop, or of holding any faith in old-time concepts of personal honor (or America, for that matter). The people he works for are a generation further advanced in their amoralities than Chandler's, and Marlowe's new goal is just to keep alive in their company and enjoy himself. He protects his friends as a side-issue (we have no idea of how his friendships are fashioned) but if his friends double-cross him he shoots. He is so inarticulate that even...