Word: kojak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sons: Mico, from the Spanish mi hijo (my son), and Bodie, named after a ghost town in eastern California. To support his growing brood, he took a job delivering antique furniture between acting and music gigs. By the early '70s, Olmos was landing small parts on shows like Kojak and Hawaii Five-O, often as bartenders and two-bit hooligans. "I was the only person Jack Lord shot in the back, ever," he notes dryly. "That's how bad I was." Then in 1978, during an audition for a play at Los Angeles' Mark Taper theater, he was asked...
Meanwhile, Olmos had been getting a reputation for inflexibility, an actor who tended to ruffle feathers on the set. During a Kojak appearance, his reluctance to say a line he did not think believable prompted Telly Savalas to call him a "prima donna." This intractability came to the fore when Producer Michael Mann called Olmos in 1984 and asked him to take the role of Lieut. Martin Castillo on a new show called Miami Vice. "I told him I couldn't do it," recalls Olmos. "It wasn't that I didn't need it. As it was, my wife...
...Gores, a three-time winner of the Edgar award, is best known for his hard- boiled thrillers. His semibiographical novel Hammett became a film produced by Francis Coppola and helped shift his career toward scriptwriting, notably for such TV series as Kojak and Magnum, P.I. Gores' novel Come Morning, his first in eight years, displays a heightened visual awareness: it blends precise research into prison life, the gem market and rock climbing with outlandishly risky escapades, including a scene in which the hero circumvents a security system by mounting an elevator cable and skittering along a momentarily inactive high-tension...
...decade or two in rerunland, have returned as new TV movies. Raymond Burr was back grilling witnesses in last December's Perry Mason Returns. Kung Fu, the early '70s hit starring David Carradine as an Eastern mystic in the American West, resurfaced as a CBS movie early in February. Kojak, Peyton Place and I Dream of Jeannie are among the other series that have been resurrected in the past year...
...stripped-down story lines, Miami Vice has brought TV's cops-and-robbers genre back to its roots: the mythic battle between good and evil. Such battles were once commonplace on TV, in westerns like Gunsmoke and The Rifleman, and in an earlier generation of police shows, from Kojak to The Streets of San Francisco. In recent years, however, these hard-nosed cops have been replaced by a new band of lighthearted crime fighters, from Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I., to Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote. Even the few "serious" police shows on TV, notably Hill Street Blues...