Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote the first three scripts and now serves as consultant. The show, a provocative but overly congested half hour of drama and comedy, has yet to hit its creative stride. But Bochco's batting average has been impressive enough that the networks seem convinced he has a golden touch. Last fall CBS tried to hire Bochco as its chief of programming. He turned down the job, partly because it would mean giving up his financial interest in L.A. Law and Hooperman, expected to be worth millions when the shows go into syndication...
...left Columbia last fall, before he could harvest the fruits of his scheme. But if he looks at A Time of Destiny, with two Oscar-winning actors (William Hurt and Timothy Hutton) and the team that made the off-Hollywood hit El Norte, he will be spinning in his golden parachute. The film is a mess...
Such skepticism is understandable in Pantasma. The golden patchwork of maize and tobacco fields that spreads outward across the valley is halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...
...child person or not? You're not? O.K."). As for fears of growing old without children, Psychologist Goodchilds explains, "For many, not having children removes the concern of being a burden to your children in old age." However, outright regret is not unusual. Despite three nephews, a golden retriever and a cat, Suzanne Childs, 45, a twice-divorced Los Angeles lawyer, says, "Knowing what I know now, I would have married someone different and had a child...
...Disney has been unable to match that success during network prime time. Though the Emmy-winning comedy The Golden Girls ranks No. 6, Disney has flubbed such efforts as The Ellen Burstyn Show and Side Kicks. But Disney is nothing if not persistent: its next offering, to start on CBS in the fall, is The Dictator, a sitcom about a deposed political strongman who sets up shop in a New York Laundromat...