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...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...
Another federal investigation is seeking to ascertain whether the Magnum Oil Co. had overcharged the city for fuel and had received from the city a $1 million loan with highly favorable terms. Young had supported the contracts to both Vista and Magnum, sometimes over the objections of the city council. Magnum is a black enterprise, and Vista posed as one in order to be eligible for preferential treatment by the city. Other less serious investigations involve the funding of several housing projects and a mall development and operations of the city...
...possible that the quarry, the more than 100 million people who ordinarily hover in front of the screen during prime time in this peak viewing month, will swim way from this costly bait? "hat they may be lured instead by Dallas or Magnum, P.I. on CBS, or Hill Street Blues on NBC? That they may (dire thought) turn to cable or flip on a video game? Or just decide to read Jane Austen? Of course it is. The bottom of the rating charts is Uttered with such failed mini-series as King, The French Atlantic Affair, MacArthur and Beggarman Thief...
...want carbon-copy television." To the programming chiefs, says Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales, "a new idea looks like a foreign object-it's something to run away from. So they clone whatever was successful elsewhere. Just watch: next year's surefire hit will be called Magnum E.T. They'll have a hairy guy with a mustache come in from outer space. Me, I'd rather watch a rerun of The Honeymooners...
...higher ratings in New York City than the networks' nightly news shows. One recent Thursday in the Los Angeles market, a rerun of Three's Company on a local independent station was the top-rated show of the night, higher than Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon or Magnum, P.I. Says Frederick S. Pierce, president and chief operating officer of ABC, Inc.: "The impact on our ratings is less from the pay movie channels than from the independent stations...