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...coming next, but at least you always know your source. One always knows where one stands. Try to deny it--somewhere in the recesses of your cortex you've adopted a personal style, and whether your source is GQ, Tom Swift, the '60s, the JayCees or Starsky and Hutch, we're all in the same damnable boat...
...heat of this debate, neither group has realized the obvious: that Fort Apache, in a cinematic context, is an awful film. The movie fails on almost every artistic and technical level. Muddled, sloppy, and usually just silly, the movie plods clumsily from Starsky and Hutch-type melodrama to confused social commentary to moronic musings on the decline and fall of modern civilization...
...services? According to Martin's memo of the meeting, which the D.A. quoted, ABC V.P. Ronald Sunderland, replied: "You want to know what it's really for? They're [cheating] the Robert Wagners out of their money. We've been putting it into Starsky and Hutch up until now, but since Starsky is off the ah", the money's got to go somewhere else, so we're calling it exclusivity...
Despite their success, neither man is in business to lose money, and both were appalled at their problems with Starsky and Hutch, a shoot-'em-up centered on two offbeat policemen. Their lawyer, William Hayes, 59, repeatedly asked ABC to help them out. ABC made additional payments, and then refused to give another dollar. According to the D.A.'s report, Hayes says that former ABC Vice President George Reeves told him: "No, I can't help you. Don't even come ask me, because everybody here has had it up to their ears with Starsky...
Spelling and Goldberg say the money diverted to Starsky and Hutch was supposed to be returned to Charlie's Angels when S&H was canceled. And that, apparently, is what has been happening. All transactions were duly recorded, Van De Kamp notes, and there was none of the secrecy-"the badges of fraud"-that usually indicates criminality. Yet a few questions remained. Nowhere does the report explain, for example, Sunderland's statement that the exclusivity gimmick was a device to cheat the Wagners...