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...proximity to Broadcast Row. The Shales style is a fast-paced blend of insight, humor and an almost possessive affection for the medium. He can write lovingly, as he did in "Dingbat's Demise," his column about the death of All in the Family's Edith Bunker: "Wife, mother, grandma, neighbor ... philosopher, cook, mender of socks, bringer of beers, keeper of the faith ... Edith, Edith, Edith, how could you ever up and die on us?" He can be outraged, as he was last February when the networks aired a cluster of exploitative TV movies on torture, rape, child...
...late. As Angels lurched toward extinction, it kept stumbling into new dificulties. ABC rescheduled it against tougher competition on Sunday nights (Archie Bunker's Place and CHiPS), a test that sent its ratings plunging one week to 59th out of 65 shows. There were threats of litigation over the division of profits. With the coming of a new political era, the Moral Majority began trumpeting charges of immorality on the air waves. And Jaclyn Smith, who has won a much publicized new role playing Jacqueline Onassis, announced that she too would depart when the season ended. The dying show...
Another major reason for Dallas' success is its tradition of joint private-public ventures. The city and Oilman Ray Hunt, the half brother of Silver Baron Bunker Hunt, combined to develop a hotel and sports complex in a section of Dallas' west side that had been stagnant for 50 years. Hunt and the city shared the cost of building new roads and Hunt paid for railroad underpasses in the area...
...when the tube's businessmen do good, it is, in 94% of the cases, on a purely personal level, like helping a troubled employee. Rarely does it involve socially or economically productive behavior. Activities of businessmen who are central characters in shows are frequently negative, mostly clownish. Archie Bunker, who now owns a bar in Archie Bunker's Place, philosophizes that the best way to cut the crime rate in half is for every person to shoot one criminal; Dry Cleaning Mini-Tycoon George Jefferson of The Jeffersons emerges as an intellectual cipher, trapped in matriarchy. Even when...
...hrer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise. When the Führer...