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Hard as it is for some of us to admit, the Dink-Stover-at-Yale days are over. The ideal notion that a lad should just be grateful for the education he receives in exchange for a few hours of practice and the glory of Saturday afternoon is as dead as the dropkick. Who knows what the time of death was? It might have been when the shoe companies began dropping unmarked bills on coaches to wear their swooshes and stripes. It might have been when NBC decided to pay holier-than-thou Notre Dame $38 million for the exclusive...
...newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers; that dramas like NYPD Blue and ER are broadening the scope of narrative art; that, heretical as it may sound, the 1990s are television's real Golden Age, the 1950s and Philco TV Playhouse and Paddy Chayefsky and Winky Dink and You notwithstanding...
...They figured the least amount of attention they'd attract, the longer they'd be able to stay in business,'' says Jeff Burgess, one of the FBI agents who was to conduct regular undercover surveillance of Fulton Avenue. In fact, behind the low-key demeanor, Dink and Drak were suspected of being in the early stages of setting up a ``primary distributorship.'' It would involve cocaine ``muled''--or smuggled--into Birmingham in regular shipments from Los Angeles. There it would be ``cooked'' into crack and finally distributed to local dealers in 1-oz. packets, or possibly even ``eight- balls...
Birmingham's Renee Stephens remains at large. But Dink Slaughter and Drak Neal were followed home and arrested in Los Angeles. The Seattle team was jailed. Second-in-command Doc Dennis surrendered to a swat team in Burbank, California, without incident. And when Q himself was summoned to visit his parole officer--he once served time on a previous drug offense--he found FBI agents waiting for him. Finally, after 15 months on the run, Cleveland's M.J. Lee was also captured early this month in Chino Hills, California...