Word: mccloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately entertaining formula television mystery--just substitute a new title character and rearrange a few details, and it would have been Barnaby Jones or McCloud...
...almost regretful. He recognizes the populist element inherent in so many American myths--the belief that the determined individual can succeed in the face of opposition by large organizations--and he seems to wish the myths were true, even though he knows they aren't. Latter-day Icarus Brewster McCloud falls to his death in the Houston Astrodome; McCabe is killed by the corporate goons; Philip Marlowe plays the sap; the gamblers in California Split lose. Maybe that's not the way you'd like it, says Altman, but that...
...school attempts the long climb back to educational and social health, the reputation of Southie High seems to precede it for these students, most of whom are ninth-graders. "There's pressure at the high school from all the cops, so no one wants to get along," Vernon McCloud, 16 years old, says...
...Brewster McCloud. At the Orson Welles One, Sunday at 5:45, land 9:30. With A Night at the Opera...
...returning to Esquire this month with still another chapter from his roman à clef. Ominously titled Unspoiled Monsters, the new installment will describe the narrator of Answered Prayers, a struggling writer named P.B. Jones, and what promises to be the book's central character, a figure named Kate McCloud. Destined to appear as the first chapter in Capote's novel, Monsters follows Jones through scatological reminiscences of his life as a male prostitute in Manhattan and his years as an unsuccessful novelist living in Tangier, Paris and Venice. "I began making notes for this book eleven years...