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Christmas Eve, 1951. L.A.P.D. Sergeant Jack Vincennes is canoodling his dance partner at a bash for a Dragnet-type show where he moonlights as technical adviser. He is explaining why his small-screen counterpart seems so bland compared with his own colorful persona. "That's because he's the television version," smirks Jack, who pockets additional cash helping a sleazy Hollywood tabloid called Hush-Hush. "America isn't ready for the real...
...Charlie's Angels go-between Bosley (David Doyle) as the piqued Lt. Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
Roswell's pop-cultural apotheosis has been as an inescapable reference on Fox Television's The X-Files, a paranormal Dragnet that details the efforts of two wooden, underacted FBI agents to expose what has metastasized over the show's four seasons into an increasingly baroque conspiracy between the Federal Government and sinister extraterrestrials--a fiction whose particulars have been cherry-picked from among the wilder theories flitting through the UFO community. Its perspective is offered by John Price, founder of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls...
DIED. GEORGE FENNEMAN, 77, Groucho Marx's announcer who perfected the art of the sidekick laugh on TV's You Bet Your Life; in Los Angeles. His velvet voice also introduced Dragnet...
...confession. Questions about the FBI's assertion that Ray acted alone surrounded the case from the beginning, including criticisms that the government conducted a sloppy, incomplete investigation. Critics have also wondered about the FBI theory that Ray, a small-time, incompetent crook could have singlehandedly evaded a police dragnet and left the country before finally being caught in London. While Ray, who lies close to death from liver disease in a Tennessee prison hospital, did not attend Thursday's hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court, members of King's family who hope for a trial sat prominently in front...