Word: hooperman
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...season may be limping to a premature end, courtesy of the seven-week- old writers' strike, but fans of Hooperman and L.A. Law can hardly say they didn't get their money's worth. Police Detective Harry Hooperman talked a couple of potential suicides down from building ledges, negotiated a clutch of hostage crises and got his on-again, off-again girlfriend (and downstairs neighbor) pregnant. Over at L.A. Law, a mob boss was gunned down across a restaurant table from Attorney Grace Van Owen; Michael Kuzak, a partner in the firm of McKenzie, Brackman, watched a client get shot...
...back Californian with a fierce determination to shatter TV's familiar formulas, is on a roll. L.A. Law, his designer drama about life in the legal fast lane, is about to end its second season on NBC as the highest- rated dramatic show on TV's highest-rated network. Hooperman, starring John Ritter as a sensitive San Francisco cop, is one of the season's top-rated new series and an ambitious pioneer of TV's newest form, the "dramedy." A potential spin-off is already in the works, focusing on a dwarf private eye named Nick Derringer...
...Hill Street's fifth season, Bochco was fired as executive producer after he resisted efforts by MTM Enterprises to reduce the show's high production costs. And late last year Bochco became embroiled in a bitter feud with Terry Louise Fisher, his creative partner on both L.A. Law and Hooperman. After negotiations to take over Bochco's job as executive producer of L.A. Law next season went awry, Fisher was barred from the show's set. She responded with a $50 million breach-of-contract suit, which was later settled out of court. The pair have now split for good...
...personality, talent and hard work all helped bring the latest crop of & dog talent to the fore. Bijoux, for instance, "looks as if they built her from spare parts," says Hooperman's executive producer, Rick Kellard. He adds, "This sounds kind of surrealistic, but the dog can do almost everything...
Hollywood is going to the dogs. The screens are full of snappy thespians, from Hooperman' s Bijoux to Spuds MacKenzie...