Word: diners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...besieged Metropolis of network television, mild-mannered shows are too often expected to be Superman. Barry Levinson, the acclaimed director of the films Diner and Rain Man, was commissioned by NBC some time ago to develop a TV series based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, an account of real-life Baltimore homicide detectives. With a Hollywood heavyweight taking a crack at one of TV's most durable genres, the project seemed like a good...
...strong cast -- including Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty and Richard Belzer -- helps make the group portrait work, and Levinson (who directed the first episode) shows off his Diner talent for small talk tinged with satire. ("Dry wall," says one detective, musing about leaving police work for another job. "You put up dry wall, and you got a sense of accomplishment.") Though the hand-held camera and jump cuts seem like affectations, the show hums along smoothly and is refreshingly light on violence. Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying. (Belzer...
...immigrant families in Littlehampton, Sussex (a fading Victorian beach resort her family dubbed "home of the newly wed and nearly dead"), she was treated like an alien by her classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed the truth: the man they called stepfather was actually their father. Locked in an unhappy marriage, Gilda had conducted a clandestine...
...Leap of Faith scoops out plenty of wry humor, such as when Martin orders the "KKK omelette, white only" at the diner in Kansas. Unfortunately, kneeslapping at the expense of rural folks wears thin. True, Martin holds the record for starring in movies with quaint, happy angles on life, but this one has half the humor without the angle. Martin tires. He bores...
...worry--you won't be bored. Aspen has shops. Aspen has art galleries. Aspen has a Hard Rock Cafe and a Boogie's Diner, where you can browse through outrageously priced fashionable clothing while waiting for burgers and fries...