Word: hamline
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DINNER AT EIGHT (TNT, Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST). Ted Turner isn't content with resurrecting old MGM classics on his newest cable channel; he is remaking them as well. Lauren Bacall, Ellen Greene and Harry Hamlin dine at the table where Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow and John Barrymore once...
Favorite Son, which ran last week, starred L.A. Law heartthrob Harry Hamlin as Texas Senator Terry Fallon, a former history teacher elected to the Senate with the aid of an ambitious press aide, Sally Crane (Linda Koslowski of Crocodile Dundee fame...
FAVORITE SON (NBC, Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1, 9 p.m. EST). A charismatic young Senator (Harry Hamlin) schemes for the vice-presidential nomination in a three-part mini-series, based not on Dan Quayle's life story but on a novel by ex-network executive Steve Sohmer...
...Harry Hamlin ran into the same prejudice in 1982, when he played a gay writer in Making Love. Hamlin's character appeared straight. The only time he acted otherwise was when he went to bed with Michael Ontkean, who played another all-American. Though Hamlin's credentials as a heterosexual were beyond dispute -- he was living at the time with sexy Ursula Andress -- his realistic characterization cast his career into a gloom that was lifted only...
...success has now given him a happier memory of Making Love, but in 1986, when he talked to the Washington Post, Hamlin was still bitter about the shadow it had cast over his life. "A guy can play an ax murderer and still be considered sexy and still get another role as a leading man," he said then. "But if you play a homosexual, suddenly you're not in contention anymore for the ax murderers...