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Wrongheadedness and bizarre tales abounded. Warner Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train...
...have bought 10,000 shares of Pacific Lumber stock three days before the tender was made public, and he may eventually have owned 5.1% of the company's shares. Another case reportedly receiving scrutiny is the $400 million merger in February of Lorimar, producer and syndicator of Dallas and Falcon Crest, with Telepictures...
...false modesty, he chose to call it New American Classics (Harper & Row; $25). Translation: the bizarre California-style dishes Tower created for his trendy restaurants. There is a windy self-congratulatory text, a double-page spread reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches -- hot goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy style, a luscious warm...
...track, and if it were not for the network's tongue-in-cheek promos, a casual viewer might miss the joke. The cast plays it expertly deadpan, with only an occasional wink at the audience. Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame. The California wines of Falcon Crest have puckered into raisins. The Southern accents (in California?) have migrated from Dallas. Garr's drop-dead wardrobe and a female catfight are straight out of Dynasty. And when Tiffany searches for her father at a costume party, she assembles all the men who are dressed as clowns...
...corrupting influence of drug money frequently leads to tensions between lawmen on opposite sides of the border. U.S. officials say rogue Mexican cops sometimes provide armed escorts for truckloads of dope moving north to the States. Mexican police have accused Starr's sheriff, Eugenio Falcon Jr., of invading a hospital south of the border in Reynosa and murdering a drug runner who was a suspect in a Starr County multiple killing. "The charges are ridiculous," insists Falcon...