Word: bochco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...psychiatrist and a drug-addicted movie star; and, in the starring role, impassioned defense attorney Teddy Hoffman, played by Daniel Benzali as a man of such unwavering rectitude that he made lawyer jokes seem as gauche as postmortem Nixon bashing. And yet with all that going for it, Steven Bochco's Murder One finished last season as the 74th-ranked show in network prime time and seemed fated for dismissal...
...replaced by Anthony LaPaglia, whose new character, Jimmy Wyler, is younger, sexier and more emotionally accessible. Meanwhile, the show's ambitious concept of following a single case all season has been scuttled in favor of offering three separate trials that will last about six weeks each. Despite the changes, Bochco insists that the show has maintained its integrity. Says he: "We haven't dumbed it down...
...that he abruptly left for the movies, breaking his contract and leaving few friends. Two bad films later, Caruso wants to return to TV to play, according to Variety, a crusading attorney. But in his rush to leave TV, he signed a deal with ABC and ex-boss Steven Bochco, promising not to return until 1998. After some negotiation, it appears they won't stand in his way. Meanwhile, Dennis Franz, the tortoise of our story, is at home with an Emmy and in theaters with the well received American Buffalo...
Public Morals (CBS) From Steven Bochco, a would-be Barney Miller for the 1990s...
...movie mixes grunge and glitter in the way of a Steven Bochco TV show, which is understandable, since director Gregory Hoblit has won a bunch of Emmys for his work on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film...