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...night, can make for a quiet laugh and an easy hour. And they may even suggest that television is doing better imitating the movies than cannibalizing itself. Police shows, a usually reliable network staple, have pretty much come a cropper-or, under the circumstances, anything but a copper. Brian Devlin (Rock Hudson) on The Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more at ease...
...neatly suited out and playing host on the show like an anchorman cut loose from his moorings. He remains unflappable, unfazed in the face of a blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug Romance, a spicy soap opera featuring dialogue ("I'm an actress, not a hooker") that could use a little less seasoning...
...Dancing Inc. studios, began the movement in 1971 from a church basement in South Orange, N.J. Says she: "It's a fad gone stir crazy." Indeed, Sorensen's and a host of other programs attract an amazing 6 million participants a month. Says a student at Jon Devlin's Dancercise in New York: "My main reason for coming is my head. If I miss three days, I have to come in for my fix." Says Devlin: "There is something about dancing and music that's magic-it lifts people up." Whether the reason is the music...
NOTEBOOK: Senior Maureen Devlin, who was Harvard's fifth finisher in the GBCs in 1978 with a time of 19:54, yesterday lopped 40 seconds off her best time to finish 36th in a field of 84 runners...
Baby Love's real name is Curtis Anthony Devlin. This is the one he uses in family court. "He ain't bad, you understand," says his Aunt Cora. "He just don't like school. And there is no one here he minds." Cora is trying to get Baby Love into a Roman Catholic residential school in upstate New York that specializes in problem children. "But I don't know if he'll stay there. One thing I do know-if he keeps on stealing gold chains he's going to be in a heap...