Word: sipowicz
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...African-American speeder wouldn't sit still and be beaten b) $58,000 seemed a little high c) other cops call him "Li'l Sipowicz" d) his gun holster caused hip pain...
...glorification of the type of policing practiced by Detective Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, where the end always justifies the means, cannot be tolerated. This role model must be changed. Policing is not entertainment. It is real. It is complex. It can be a matter of life or death...
...idea of government quietly taking a hand in shaping TV programs is also one of those slippery slopes. If Washington can offer financial incentives to work antidrug dialogue into Drew Carey, why not induce NYPD Blue to have Sipowicz plug gun control every time he plugs a suspect? Even worse, depending on who runs Congress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer could end up pro-life one season and pro-choice the next...
Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), NYPD Blue Gee, I don't have to read them their rights no more? This is what I would say: "You can speak up, or you can shut up--whatever makes you happy. Either way, you're under arrest and you're going to jail...
...reality." Or perhaps it's that men's magazines and TV shows are simply offering up images of masculinity that stand in high relief to the ones recent pop culture has provided: the wimpy and neurotic males on Friends, the fey brothers Crane on Frasier, the emotionally broken Detective Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, the guys in the movie Swingers, whose nostalgia for Rat Pack swagger never really expresses itself in anything beyond a taste for suits and cocktails...