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...said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled son Christian (who served five years in prison for killing his half-sister's lover). Tests showed that the younger girl's father was Robert Blake, 67, former child star (Our Gang), movie actor (In Cold Blood) and TV cop (Baretta). Bakley married Blake last November. On the night of May 4, it was Blake who ran breathlessly into Vitello's, where he was a regular (a spinach and pasta dish is named for him) and where he had just had dinner with Bakley. He asked for a drink of water...
Nash Bridges. Mac Swift. Like Thomas Magnum and Tony Baretta, these names imply a benighted sense of macho can do-ness. Not surprisingly, perhaps, both shows wallow in an anachronistic treatment of women. For the most part they are portrayed as victims-either of Bridges' noncommittal ways or of nasty evildoers from whom they need Y-chromosome-enhanced protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated...
Frustrated at doing police work by the book, detective Wade Preston likes to hark back to the cops he idolizes: "Baretta, Starsky and Hutch, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin -- those guys had fun!" His partner replies impatiently, "Those are TV cops. They're not real." Whines the TV junkie: "Who says everything has to be real...
...koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died of a heart attack during the shooting, they tell me. No wonder. I suppose with white cockatoos going for $2,000 apiece, after Baretta, they couldn't have any flocks of those; there were enough flaming galahs behind the camera anyway...
...learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly become sensitive to the way television can distort reality. "All big-city cops are not as glamorous as Kojak," says Lori Kaufman, 14, of Lucas, Kans...