Word: copping
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...exploits?--a young lawyer (Rose Byrne) with a personal connection to the case; it's soon an open question which one of them Patty is a greater threat to. In TNT's Saving Grace (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Holly Hunter is Grace Hanadarko, a tortured, hard-living Oklahoma City cop who sleeps with whom she likes, drinks as much as she likes and will sucker punch anyone she doesn't like. In the first scene, we see her fully naked in bed--with a married cop--a prelude to her driving drunk, hitting a pedestrian and getting an intervention from...
That started to change in the early '80s, with the cop drama Cagney & Lacey (see above), whose duo battled family problems and alcoholism. But the changes were still slow. Women tended to be action stars (Alias) or less complicated heroines (Crossing Jordan), or, more likely, were second leads or co-stars with men (The X-Files, CSI). Sturm und Drang remained men's work. "I've been trying to sell a new Cagney & Lacey to the networks for 15 years," says Miller. "I've developed it five different times, but it's never gotten to the point of being shot...
...shaped the characters' lives. "In order to portray someone, you have to find a common humanity with them," she says. "The Marquise de Merteuil [in Liaisons] invented herself to survive in a world where women were used and discarded on a daily basis." Even in The Closer, a cop show strongly driven by the crime of the week, Brenda's loyalty and drive for justice are intangibly, but decisively, female--"a mother with her cubs," as Sedgwick puts...
...dozens who chatted with Altmire expressed outright opposition to the Democratic timelines, though many were troubled by their implications. Arlene Carr, 66, a homemaker in New Castle, said she worries about increased terrorism at home if the U.S. fails in Iraq. And Skip Haswell, 62, a retired cop in Ambridge, said he's concerned that the troops will suffer from a Vietnam-type stigma if they come home unsuccessful. "I try to explain it to them, that this is a strategy for success. This isn't just pulling out and saying, 'We're leaving the rest for you,'" Altmire said...
...slain officer's widow, Joan MacPhail, decried the ruling. "I believe they are setting a precedent for all criminals that it is perfectly fine to kill a cop and get away with it," she said. "By making us wait, it's another sock in the stomach. It's tearing...