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...Hill Street Blues will ring down its curtain this week with Frank and Joyce (Daniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel) heading closer to a permanent split as she leaves for Paris; a character on St. Elsewhere with liver cancer will take a turn for the worse; and Officer Chris Cagney (Sharon Gless) will believe she is pregnant as Cagney & Lacey departs for its summer vacation. Dallas' season finale is still a deep secret, but hints are that the enemies of J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) may have something ominous in store for the dastardly oilman. Most spectacular of all will...
When it came to squashing a grapefruit in some dame's face, no one could be more hard-boiled than Actor James Cagney. He is still pretty tough, but Cagney, 84, got misty-eyed in Washington last week, when he was one of 14 honored with the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. The President got a little sentimental himself, saying, "As a great star at the same studio where I started [Warner Bros.], he was never too busy to hold out a hand to a young fellow just trying to get under...
...that was yesterday. Now CBS is busily refurbishing the image of the city and its inhabitants. Four of the network's current shows revolve around street-smart New York women, all but one of them single, and none a ditsy ingenue. Cagney & Lacey and the newest show, Kate & Allie, feature pairs of female buddies trying to cope; Mama Malone and Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs showcase brassy and boisterous women who cannot help stirring up trouble...
Although the most authentic New York touch about Cagney & Lacey is the latter's Bronx accent ("I swear I'll take ya outta the game"), the relationship between the leads is canny and convincing. The pair do a balancing act: Cagney is hard bitten on the outside, a soft touch underneath; Lacey, played with subtlety and warmth by Tyne Daly, is motherly in manner but rough with the "poipatraters." The original show was canceled last spring, but CBS decided to bring it back to life in part because of a deluge of protest mail from viewers who responded...
...Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...