Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beverly Hills builder, Diller joined abc in 1966. This was a young man in a hurry. Diller was soon developing two important formats: the mini-series (QB VII) and the made-for-TV movie (such as Duel, Steven Spielberg's debut feature). In 1974 he moved to Paramount, where he, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso and some other sharp people spurred a renaissance of the studio, with such hits as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flashdance and Terms of Endearment...
...huge problems remain. The obsessed woman, stirringly acted and sung by Donna Murphy, is still difficult to like or admire. The man whom she chases spends most of the show eluding her, then shifts in a moment to loving her passionately. This transition -- which also commits him to a duel -- would be tough for anyone, and is utterly beyond the histrionic powers of Jere Shea, a handsome and harmonious hero but a wooden one. The message that love is unworthy unless it recklessly risks everything may fit the Anna Karenina-style sensibilities of 1863, when the show...
...inning pitchers' duel, of course...
...fiddle player identified only as "Jimbo Braddox" contested the award and challenged Perry to a trivia contest and a duel...
Perry answered two of the three trivia questions right, and then Braddox and Perry started a fiddle-guitar duel...