Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adrian Blake '88, the rivalry harkens back to high school. "It's one way of justifying that you're better than your friend from prep school who went to Yale," he says...
Certainly, The Game isn't New Haven's only attraction this weekend. "Two minutes after the game you've forgotten the score," says Blake...
...good idea to get rid of George III and Lord North? Given the uninflected worship of money that marks the 1980s, it is no wonder that the spectacle of privilege enjoying its own toilette has become America's hottest cultural ticket. Thus Lord Marchmain of Brideshead becomes the Blake Carrington of the American upper middle classes...
...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...hardly be faulted for encouraging Hollywood's top talent to put big visions onto the small screen. Nor can the NBC brass be accused of gambling everything on one show. The network's other new series, including Hell Town, starring Robert Blake as a vigilante priest, and the highly touted sitcom The Golden Girls, have decent shots at survival. So do any number of new entries on the competing networks' rosters. Tartikoff, one of whose ten TV commandments is the famous "All hits are flukes," is sanguine about the immediate future. "We won't be surprised," he says...