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...Your article about Eddie Egan [April 1] was appreciated, but I would like to clarify the situation. You said, "After being bounced by the New York City police department in 1971, some say for his informal working habits...
...Egan, in fact, was reinstated. He retired as a first-grade detective with all privileges and pension rights in March 1972. A quote from the decision of the judge was to the effect that the handling of the case by the police department had been shocking. When the whole truth was brought out in the courtroom, the attorneys for the City of New York recommended that this decision should stand without challenge...
...that was completely reproduced in neon, for instance. "Oh that thing, yes, I just happen to have a couple of color transparencies of it here in my pocket." Robert Vaughn, in little soloquies complete with Shakespearean intonation, worries about his rivals Higgs (first string) and Puckeridge (third string). Michael Egan, tremendous and goateed, is perfect for the lecherous Birdfoot...
...Eddie Egan, the super-narc who overrode all authority in his attacks on drug traffic in The French Connection, is nowhere in sight in The Seven-Ups. Like the previous film, and Bullitt, this is a Phil D' Antoni production, mindless and numbing. D'Antoni is more careful at limiting his hero's powers in this second-effort: delivering the further exploits of Egan's former partner, Sonny Grosso, he lends Grosso's fictional counterpart, Buddy Mannucci, an institutional weight that Egan lacked. Mannucci heads a special plain-clothes corps aimed at gaining arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted...
...Indeed, Egan could probably sue the producers for defamation of character...