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...defining moment for the made-from-TV movie -- a secular equivalent of Saul struck blind on the road to Damascus -- came one night in the mid-1980s. Producer Permut was channel surfing. "I saw an old rerun of Dragnet," he recalls, "and two stations away, a rerun of Saturday Night Live with Dan Aykroyd." Permut's Dragnet, with Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, became a hit in the summer of 1987 (another moneymaker that season was The Untouchables, with Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness). "Since then," Permut says, "I've been brought just about every TV show imaginable. Last week somebody...
...news-paper. Its total irrelevance to the plot doesn't make it less interesting-it provides an opportunity to hear the Truffaut rattle off dozens of maxims about love. Other shots try to make sense of the flawed plot; a sign in the middle of the city reads, "The dragnet is being drawn about Michel Poiccard!". It's not a great tactic for police trying to sneak up on a criminal, but a sure-fire way to let the audience know what's going...
...full diaries. The debate this week, which will be followed by a vote, will determine if the Senate proceeds to U.S. district court to enforce compliance. Plainly hoping to calm jitters and win votes, Bryan dismissed Packwood's suggestion that other Senators might be caught in a diary dragnet. "There is no witch hunt or fishing expedition under way," Bryan said. "The ethics committee has no interest in pursuing information related to the private lives of members of Congress...
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...series." Each hour is divided in half, with each half focusing on an individual police or sheriff's department. You can call the halves "episodes," but they are not defined by a narrative with convenient beginning, middle and end, (the classic cop-drama form; no arrest comes with that Dragnet feeling of social vengeance against the wrong-doer...