Word: ex-cop
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...mystic martial artist, and Time Trax, about a 22nd century cop who goes time-traveling in search of criminals who have escaped to the 20th century. They join such other hours as Highlander (the adventures of a centuries-old Scottish "immortal"), Renegade (Lorenzo Lamas as a motorcycle-riding ex-cop) and Street Justice (a sort of inner-city A Team). On the drawing boards for next fall: an updated Bonanza and Acapulco H.E.A.T., with Catherine Oxenberg as head of an antiterrorist squad...
...also feel their pain and shock when Mayor Frank Moscone and Harvey Milk, a homosexual aide, are assassinated by a crazed, homophobic ex-cop. Then we are exposed to their deathly fear of AIDS and its effect on their community...
...steps nice guy ex-cop Jeff Bridges to help her sort out the mess she's in and fill up her bare life and refrigerator while he's at it. He's the kind of man any woman would count herself lucky to find, adept at making dinner while helping you beat a murder rap. And without burning the sauce. It takes a while for Viveca to warm up to this knight-in-shining apron, but it's only a matter of time before the sparks start flying and the buns start burning...
...Fonda is, to be sure, awfully good as Alex Sternbergen, a near-miss movie star now trying to drink her leftover life away. She has the style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook. As played by Jeff Bridges, he is also a total bore...
...percent since he entered office in the late 1970s. In Detroit, the average number of annual deaths caused by police fell in the late 1970s from 32 to 21. For Atlanta under Maynard Jackson, the average went from 11 to four. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, an ex-cop, allows the District Attorney to conduct frequent investigations into how and when his police fire their guns...