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...Judith Rodin has served Yale with great distinction as a teacher, scholar, chairman, dean and provost," said a statement released yesterday by Yale president Richard C. Levin. "There is no one better prepared to assume the leadership of a great university...
...Yale will miss her, but the University ofPennsylvania will prosper from her energeticguidance," Levin's statement said...
Executive producer Larry Levin, a former writer for It's Garry Shandling's Show and creator of last season's cop spoof Arresting Behavior, concedes that even in the best circumstances, Bakersfield P.D. is unlikely to become a Top 10 hit. "I'm asking viewers to look sideways at stuff instead of dead-on, and it throws most people," he says. "My feet are firmly planted in sand. Nothing is black and white...
Does Bakersfield P.D. have a future? The show is probably too gentle and unassertive to inspire the sort of grass-roots campaign that saved or extended shows like Brooklyn Bridge and Cagney & Lacey. Levin thinks the subject matter makes it a tough sell. "Nobody wants to see ineffective cops," he theorizes. "In the days of Car 54, Where Are You? people didn't have to lock their doors or their car. Today there's violence and fear and crime everywhere, and nobody wants to see a cop who can't make a decision." Maybe not, but who says every show...
...Yale's favor," said Levin, who will be watching his first Harvard-Yale game as Yale's chief...