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...four-wheel-drive vehicle or get a drenching in the lagoon after tipping over the dugout canoe into which she is trying to climb. When that happens, she'll swear like a trooper. Then she'll break into a hearty, long laugh. Here's an energetic cop, only seven years in the job, who craves action and responsibility but doesn't take herself too seriously. To the smiling, freckled Curragh, this outpost, and the surrounding islands, is an amazing place - "Magical Munda," she calls it now. "But you could easily be isolated and miserable out here," she says, recalling...
...nearly too much even for executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama was like that in his cop shows, and the content was ugly but necessary. "Without dramatizing the consequences of terrible, violent events," he says, "you aren't doing your...
...Schwarzenegger to be a little otherworldly. One-liners don’t usually work as well in real life as they do in the movies, but I could see him approaching every policy decision like a movie line. On law enforcement: “I’m a cop, you idiot.” (Kindergarten Cop). On food and agriculture: “Milk is for babies, I drink beer.” (Pumping Iron). And on military affairs: “Get in the chopper. Do it now!” (Predator...
...graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue...
...invites the vandalistic act. The media play so endlessly on themes of violence and aggression that they become, to the young at least, an accepted part of life. Wholesale renunciation of traditional values -the death of faith, the obsolescence of marriage, the campus as a locale for riot, the cop seen as pig-casts the adolescent adrift from all moorings. In this respect, according to Zimbardo, vandalism is "an attempt to show you have some effect on your environment. Destructive acts are chosen because they are more readily seen and because they are often more easily accomplished than constructive ones...