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...disaffected Eastern elite what the Daily Racing Form is to gambling addicts, found Purdy just as cloying and irritating. Among New Yorkers whose daily bread is irony, heavily buttered with sarcasm and ridicule, Purdy's message of earnest civic-mindedness was as welcome as a vice cop at a bachelor party...
Rock is making the most of his moment. He could have stuck to the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence path to fame and fortune: 1) sign up for a buddy-cop film; 2) ad-lib your way through the criminally formulaic script; 3) get paid; 4) repeat. But Rock is playing it smart and working with Hollywood's edgiest comic directors. He has a co-starring role in Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy); a lead opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty, a film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men); and a star turn in I Was Made...
...club's talent coordinator, to introduce him. Murphy asked if Rock was on that night. He wasn't...but now he was. Rock decided to take the stage and, as they say in comedy, he killed. Murphy gave him a small role as a valet in Beverly Hills Cop II. A few years later, Rock joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. He had arrived. But the kid who couldn't fight was in for a battle...
...Take 5," as it is called, came from Sergeant Regina Evans, who was looking for a nontraditional way to get teenagers to come to the station to bond with police. But she has been surprised by its popularity among officers as an opportunity to work through the vicissitudes of cop life...
...most oft-cited excuses for why the races don't mix more on TV is that they don't mix more off it. We may mingle at work and school, but the home remains mostly monochrome. The small-screen picture of race has inevitably suffered, for while in cop shows and historical movies race is an "issue," only in our most intimate domestic and social arenas can we see it as a multifaceted fact of life. For that reason alone, An American Love Story (PBS, Sept. 12-16, check local listings), a 10-hr. documentary about an interracial family...