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...MURDER ONE PILOT (ABC) The story line later grew convoluted and the diversionary subplots tiresome, but the first episode of Steven Bochco's serial drama piqued flawlessly. A murdered teenager; a rich, smarmy suspect; a crafty defense attorney--it paled only next to that other courtroom drama in L.A. 3 THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY (ABC) Remember an age of rock so innocent that young stars actually enjoyed being famous? The grand old geezers--Paul, George, Ringo--recalled the genial hysteria of Beatlemania in a three-night show of rare clips and rockin' good music. Nostalgia nirvana...
WINNERS DANIEL BENZALI More girth, less hair than Dennis Franz, but Murder One makes him latest Bochco star...
...Katie, poor, sweet, knocked-up Katie; vivacious Gilda, a fortyish woman of Italian extraction who had been raised in Ethiopia and who now devoted herself to the music and careers of heavy metal bands; baby-faced George, an aspiring actor who claimed to have had a meeting with Steven Bochco's people; and Autumn, as delicate a ditz as ever broke a man's heart...
...ambition, hubris and nostalgia still inspire many of the most talented American filmmakers to try the form. Steven Bochco, after creating the hit series L.A. Law but before creating the hit series NYPD Blue, created the very expensive flop series Cop Rock, a weekly musical about police. "It was the most fun I've ever had in television," says Bochco, whose father was a Broadway pit musician. The audience regarded Cop Rock as a curious taste not worth acquiring -- "I think people sitting at home alone," Bochco figures now, "were embarrassed" -- and ABC canceled it quickly. James Brooks, the director...
...STEVEN BOCHCO...