Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to Er : Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething, St. Elsewhere, China Beach, Cagney & Lacey, Twin Peaks, ... Northern (The Television Series)
Producer-director behind a raft of 20th-century TV classics It is no exaggeration to declare that the name of the film and television producer-director Arnold Laven, who has died aged 87, has been seen by millions of people all over the world, even if it might not have registered. Think of all those viewers of the TV series The Rifleman (1959-63) and The Big Valley (1965-69), made by Laven's company,...
Vice President Biden will be in Central Iowa today. It'll be tons of JO BS , and the scientific community is united in that fact , but no real jobs as the U.S. unemployment rate sits at 10.2 % and Iowa's has risen to 6.7% . Can you say STIMULUS ? Be aware that there have been a few unfortunate incidents, in other areas, that have foreshadowed a visit from the Vice President recently. Biden Escort Involved...
"I went to sleep dreaming life was beauty -- I woke up knowing life was duty." -- written by David Mamet for a 1987 Hill Street Blues episode called "Wasted Weekend." I heard the line once during the original broadcast. I watched it from a cool little pre-war studio I was renting at the time, located on Camrose Drive in the old-time Hollywood hills, close to the Hollywood Bowl and...
Twenty years ago, before I was published I spent two years writing an adult book. I was a great fan of ‘Hill Street Blues’ at the time and structured my book in a similar way. It was a complete day in a secondary school and involved the lives and loves of a group of teachers. (No need to guess what my job was at the time). It had a host of main characters and a number of intersecting story...
American Primitive is an excellent gay drama with an outstanding cast. It also doesn't hurt that it's set in 1973 with a groovy soundtrack of music. Give me the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" emanating from a car radio and I'm happy. However, cool oldies do not necessarily make a good film, so I was quite pleased that the screenplay by director Gwen Wynne and Mary Beth Fielder...
Answer below the fold. Veronica Hamel, who later starred in the grandaddy of all gritty, contemporary, serial dramas with multiple intertwined story arcs Hill Street Blues.
Halloween turned out to be a lot more exciting at my house than I’d expected. We welcomed at least 45 trick-or-treaters, which is about twice as many as we usually see. (Maybe it was the double pumpkins and Christmas lights that drew those crowds.) Fortunately, I had plenty of sweets on hand--enough to give everybody generous helpings (which led one tyke in superhero garb to bellow out to his...
Actress Jenny McCarthy is 37. Country singer Bill Anderson is 72. Actress Barbara Bosson (”Murder One,” “Hill Street Blues”) is 70. Actor Robert Foxworth (”Falcon Crest”) is 68. “Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt is 67. Actress Marcia Wallace is 67. Country singer Kinky Friedman is 65. Music producer David Foster is 60. Singer-guitarist Dan Peek (America)...
This week I have mostly been talking like Lola* and I have no idea why, other than it has been a funner-er way to live my week with a stinky lurgy. Becoming quite attached to a favourite screen character is nothing new; many people would never dream of missing Doctor Who, Torchwood, BSG, Heroes, Lost, Holby - you name it - just to see what 'Character X' does next - but on Kids' TV, as an adult? I write...
It’s Thursday, must be time for a list. Let’s see, today let’s do… TV-show theme songs! I tried to stay away from some of the more obvious choices such as MASH, The Brady Bunch, or Hill Street Blues (though I was only slightly successful). And with apologies to The Rembrandts, I also decided against including [...]
Filed under: TV , Beauty , 'Memba Them?! Bruce Weitz is best known for playing Sgt. Mick Belker on the '80s TV series "Hill Street Blues." Guess what he looks like now! ... Permalink
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Since the job search is going slooooow, and I'm caught up with my school work, I figured I'd stretch out typing up Always until tomorrow. Then I found out that Planned Parenthood needed volunteers tomorrow for a health insurance campaign, so I figured I could at least do something productive with my time. Plus, I got an email from a friend complementing me on my "sweet" story, noting that...