Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hentoff called most jazz critics "amateurish" and "incompetent." "It's an easy cop-out for a jazzman to say a critic doesn't know what's he doing, because he's right...
...plot, such as it is, revolves around a bunch of Chicago hoods, some imported Parisian prostitutes and a precinct's worth of incompetent cops. A love interest is thrown in between the head cop and the chief poule, but all this subplot produces are some melodic but agonizingly uninteresting love songs. Each of the three groups of characters has amusing ensemble bits: the prostitutes form an amazingly synchronized kickline, and the hoods have a funny song about the Apalachin Assassination Association...
...master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...
Over her corpse, her husband Mike, a cop turned lawyer, writhed in a manner to make Orson Welles's Macbeth or Olivier's Heathcliffe seem studies in understatement. Only a few days before, it had been revealed that little Laurie Ann. the Karrs' tot, was suffering from a hitherto unknown disease called paranucleosis, and couid be snatched from death only by miracle brain surgery. Alas, the master surgeon had hung up his trephining kit; his nerves had been shattered since his own daughter died under his scalpel...
...called a midnight press conference, declared bitterly that he was quitting because of Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind of iron that Steve Kennedy made a golden rule...