Word: dabney
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...originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays Dragon with an intriguingly baby-faced venom, looming over the show is the ghost of the short-lived Buffalo Bill (1983-84), which also portrayed a loathsome media figure (Dabney Coleman as a TV talk-show host). But today's fans, who can spout weekend box-office grosses like football scores, fancy themselves insiders, fascinated with and cynical about media. Action, says Thompson, will appeal by "confirming America's worst fears that people in show business are the crass...
BORN: Sept. 14, 1953, Charlotte, N.C. EDUCATION: U of South Carolina, 1972-73 FAMILY: Wife, Laura Dabney; three children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate developer; N.F.L. team co-owner POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2024 Main Street, Columbia...
...becomes the school heroine and captain of the wrestling team, Jed is sought after as an eligible bachelor, and Jethro is made vice president of the bank. Ever-efficient bank executive Miss Jane Hathaway and her uptight boss Mr. Drysdale, played respectively by the usually talented Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman, fit in so well with the Clampetts that they might as well be adopted into the clan...
...habitual jailbird, scruffy and not quite bright. Andrew (Samuel L. Jackson) definitely does belong here; he's rich, famous and accomplished. The problem is that he's black, which means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know how to play it. The result...
...hair, bones and fingernails will be tested for traces of arsenic poisoning. If any are found, they would strengthen Rising's theory that Taylor was killed by proslavery Southerners angered by his support for the admission of California and New Mexico into the Union as free states. Said Dabney Taylor, the President's great-great-great grandson: "Rumors have been running through the family for years. I'm just glad somebody is finally going to do something about it." The prime suspects: Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, Vice President Millard Fillmore and two unnamed Georgia politicians...