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...array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife) and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five-O). --TIME...
DIED. GAIL FISHER, 65, groundbreaking African-American actress-model who won an Emmy for portraying secretary Peggy Fair on the long-running '70s detective series Mannix; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Credited as the first black actress to earn a speaking part in a national TV ad (for All detergent), she turned her bit part on Mannix into a major role within one season...
...idea for Gladiator began in the '70s when screenwriter David Franzoni read Daniel P. Mannix's Those About to Die, a briskly lurid history of the Roman games. "It really made a connection between that era and ours," Franzoni says, "about how sports heroes are slavishly worshiped by their fans." A few years ago, while writing his script for Steven Spielberg's Amistad, he worked on an idea about gladiators as "commercialized idols, their endorsements on frescoes, chariots and jars of olive oil." When Scott was hired, he brought in John Logan (Any Given Sunday) to create Maximus' life...
...power to bring together far-flung peoples. These are all significant, but there's another that's even more impressive--the power to keep a four-year-old quiet. All parents know about this miraculous effect, and many take advantage of it without even caring what program is on--Mannix reruns, Cochran and Company, golf--as long as the child sits staring dumbly at the fires of the TV hearth...
...Street. I never saw Walter Cronkite. I didn't Get Smart either. Not once did I come home from school and settle down on the couch for a little Gilligan's Island or Magilla Gorilla. There was no All in the Family in my family. M*A*S*H, Mannix, Merv, David Frost talking with Richard Nixon, Howard Cosell talking with Howard Cosell, Sunday-morning cartoons, late-night movies--we had none of it. Or, rather, my mother was having none of it. By her decree, ours was the only house in the neighborhood without a television...