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...Raven (NBC) stars Skip Homeier as something called Dan Raven, a sort of semiprivate eye who shares his billing with such guest performers as Singers Bobby Darin and Paul Anka while he works his beat on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Boyish-looking and hyper-hip, he is apparently convinced that murder can be fun. The show may have to go some to avoid the epitaph: "Quoth the ratings, nevermore...
...Raven (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.) The first episode of a new mystery series starring Skip Homeier, and set in the neon night caves of Hollywood. Guest Star Singer Bobby Darin plays himself...
...three events that probably clouded the sunlit hours of the early comedies and prologued the dark vision of the great tragedies. The second was Shakespeare's-embittered love affair with the unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare...
...world 19 years before and hid out in a Bronx cemetery. Dodging caretakers and sleeping in a mausoleum, amusing himself by reading and working out chess problems, he has found armistice, if not peace. Jonathan Rebeck sees and talks with ghosts, but his only live companion is a truculent raven who steals food for him, and whose conversation runs more to "The hell you say" than "Nevermore." As the book opens, Rebeck is gnawing a baloney the raven has liberated ("Damn near ruptured myself," the bird complains), but his meal is disturbed by a funeral procession. When the mourners have...
Nothing to Say. One reason Ridge can scarcely hear the inner voice of conscience is that'Author White's characters come equipped with megaphones. No one talks; everyone blasts out endless editorials-on the evils of TV. Republicans, Democrats, the American Dream-not excluding Ridge's raven-haired exwife, at whom Ridge makes embarrassing /fl«-passes throughout the novel. Ridge puts the finger on Trumpet's fatal lack-"It had nothing left to say"-but scarcely lifts an editorial finger to remedy the situation...