Word: hals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hal: Have you search warrant...
...Hal (Bryan E. Van Gorder), Mrs. McLeavy's unsentimental son, has no qualms about hiding the loot from his bank theft in his mother's coffin and stuffing her naked corpse into a bureau ("it's a Freudian nightmare," he comments offhandeldy). Hal's partner in crime and sometime lover is Dennis (Robert de Neufville), an undertaker's assistant whose Protestant upbringing has given him "every luxury--atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision...
...something. Network drama has been in a slump of late; the audience for realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city restaurant run by Hal Linden. Though not a Spelling production, it adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written by a powerful theater critic...
Disagreement also arises over how to publicize the Perot message. San Francisco adman Hal Riney, who helped create Reagan's effective "It's Morning Again in America" television campaign in 1984, has signed on to devise the Texan's television ads. Rollins and Jordan want to launch a full-scale media effort almost immediately, but other aides favor more of the unadorned, direct appeals that have proved so effective in building support. Several key assistants were ecstatic over Perot's performance on an abc town meeting last week. Although the candidate was typically discursive and vague when responding to questions...
...blacks in the '60s and '70s, then puts each under a critical magnifying glass. Julia, in which Diahann Carroll played TV's first black sitcom mother, was intended as "some sort of an apology for a lot of the things we had done on Amos 'n' Andy," says creator Hal Kanter. Yet the show's sunny treatment of race relations was as far from reality as anything on the tube. (An encounter between Julia's little boy and a white playmate: "Your mother's colored!" "Of course. I'm colored too." "You are?" Squeal of laughter...