Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These two shows share a certain fitful buoyancy of spirit that, on a good night, can make for a quiet laugh and an easy hour. And they may even suggest that television is doing better imitating the movies than cannibalizing itself. Police shows, a usually reliable network staple, have pretty much come a cropper-or, under the circumstances, anything but a copper. Brian Devlin (Rock Hudson) on The Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich...
...went to my high school class and said to my classmates that Tom Vallely would be at the JFK School, they would probably laugh," he says. "But Vietnam had a very profound effect...
...massive media blitz under the ficticious premise that American Gypsies were boycotting the product. The campaign, let by Comedian Stan Freedberg and the mysterious Gypsy leader "Vladimir Krim," featured television ads depicting a Gypsy encampment on the ground of the company's Wobrun, MA headquarters. "It was a real laugh, "Bates recall. In the late '50s pilots on Eastern Airlines read their tags over the P.A. systems, and some tags featured "instant winner" cash prizes of 10 to 100 dollars...
...Bronze Star and bent facts to make Spahn larger than life. The test, ruled New York's highest court in 1967, was whether the book was knowingly or recklessly "infected with material and substantial falsification." As Taylor puts it: "My livelihood depends on-and don't laugh-my acting, the way I look, the way I sound. If somebody else fictionalizes my life, that is taking away from...
...usual on brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing a cat at a wall...