Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspense is not as tightly wound as it might be. The mystery is not as deep or, when unraveled, as stunning as it could be. The detective (Aidan Quinn) is a little more crudely macho than he needs...
...fooled. Tommy Lee Jones is a no-nonsense, macho actor who takes his work very seriously, refuses to bullshit and is not afraid to speak his mind. Measuring his words and punctuating them with long pauses, Jones speaks like a telegram. His monotoned voice and alarming brevity find a paradoxical balance between supercilious, down home rudeness and overly reverent attentiveness...
...enforcement imperative to show who's boss, who's in charge, who's the `macho one,' took over," he said...
...star presence is Stacy Keach, who plays four members of the Rowen family, from a ruthless homesteader before the Revolution to an alcoholic official of a withered union in the Nixon era. The first Rowen is the overarching presence, a character of macho force, demonic glee and utmost energy -- so awe-inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord...
...guys in this precinct who are very much at home around prostitutes.") Rarely has TV portrayed casual racial stereotyping with as much humor or human understanding. Cop-show stereotypes come in for even more satire. The police in this California backwater are a far cry from the cool, macho professionals who have populated TV dramas from Kojak to NYPD Blue. Mostly they are wimpy, neurotic, overemotional misfits, more obsessed with interpersonal trivia than the demands of police work. Not that the police work is very demanding. The morning roll call in Bakersfield P.D. is like Hill Street Blues on happy...