Word: shepherded
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When America last saw David Addison and Maddie Hayes, things seemed to be coming to a head for the sparring detectives and almost lovers of ABC's Moonlighting. Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has a dashing new boyfriend (Mark Harmon), but realizes that David (Bruce Willis) is jealous. Will the two finally get together? If the show's fans are holding their breath for an answer, they may turn blue before it arrives. The four-part episode that is supposed to resolve the problem began airing on Feb. 3. Seven weeks and four repeat episodes later, the conclusion is still...
Like a fifth-grader caught without his homework, Moonlighting has plenty of excuses. In the midst of filming the multi-parter, Willis broke his collarbone on a Sun Valley ski slope and was absent three days. Another two weeks' worth of shooting was lost while Shepherd, who is expecting twins in October, was fighting off morning sickness. Those misfortunes only complicated the show's chronic inability to stay on schedule. Most network series turn out at least 22 new episodes a season; Moonlighting will be lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before...
...first glance, Moonlighting isn't about much. The mystery plots are slight and derivative: so many bogus suicides and murders have been staged that the show could be subtitled "101 Ways to Remake Vertigo." But Shepherd, as the straitlaced ice queen, and Willis, as the wisecracking clod-with-a- heart-of-gold, are a screen team to treasure. Despite some straining this season, the writers have managed to deepen and develop their relationship without losing the comic fizz. And no other series takes more chances. The actors frequently step out of character for asides to the camera, and the show...
...plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco...
Right now the idea is just a gleam in the eyes of U.S. officials in Sri Lanka. But if they have their way, the snake-devouring mongoose, celebrated in the 1894 Kipling classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, may eventually replace the German shepherd as the drug sniffer of choice at some international airports. The U.S. embassy in Colombo is so intrigued with the idea that it has asked the State Department for $10,000 to fund a mongoose training school at the Colombo...