Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilot. NBC had particular doubts about Johnson, 35, a journeyman actor who had appeared earlier in several unsuccessful pilots. A Missouri native, Johnson made his movie debut at age 20 in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, and later starred in such films as A Boy and His Dog and the TV mini-series From Here to Eternity. He has also dabbled in songwriting, collaborating on two numbers that were recorded by the Allman Brothers in their 1979 album Enlightened Rogues...
...unusual result is a comedy of mourning, an affirmation of attachments to the dead. Ethan visits his father in dreams; Leary's closest companion is Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister...
...inept in the face of vitality. Edward keeps him hopping. His boss insists on launching him in search of the latest in bland and drab. An admirably persistent Muriel steers him into her life, which includes a sickly son. Despite incompatible styles, the arrangement works: Muriel tames the dog, and Macon invigorates...
More often, as Tyler adroitly stages events, Macon finds himself in a screwball farce. His leg fracture occurs when his cat gets stuck in a clothes dryer; his excited dog jumps on him, and he falls down the basement stairs while going to the rescue. A waitress insists that he check his crutches. Leaving the restaurant, he feels unexplainably crippled, "nearly doubled, his chin sunk low on his chest and his elbows jutting out awkwardly like the wings of a baby bird." It seems appropriate that he should look the way he feels, until an old woman points out that...
Listening to Johnny Most, the radio voice of the Celtics on WRKO (680 am), is like that. All the opponents cheat and hot dog, all the Celts glide. Former Washington center Rich Mahorn is McFilthy, his teammate Jeff Ruland is McNasty. Rambunctious Boston forward M.L. Carr is competitive and inspirational, not vicious and untalented...