Word: fuzzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FUZZ...
...devotee of detective fiction knows, the most famous police station in the country is Author Ed McBain's 87th Precinct, where the cops are gruff, sentimental and occasionally fallible, but almost always good at their jobs. Fuzz is based on a blotter full of their exploits, but if the boys at the 87th ever see it, they'll have an open and shut case of criminal impersonation on their hands...
...cops in Fuzz are the Keystone variety: louts and lovable fumblers who succeed at their work mostly out of dumb luck. The precinct has been transplanted from McBain's unnamed megalopolis to Boston for reasons that have little to do with milieu; the producers found it too expensive to shoot the film in New York. The shabby station house is cluttered with a couple of painters from whom Director Colla is grimly determined to wring laughs. As the cops struggle to do their duty, the painters contrive to get in the way whenever possible, straddling desks with stepladders...
...real culprit behind Fuzz is Screenwriter Hunter. He should have known better. After all, he has written some good books under the name of Ed McBain...
...Whose new hair transplants are being referred to as Fuzz...