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...5.The Rifleman: If passed, I'd have toguess that nobody cares more about hockey atHarvard than senior Brian Farrell. I'll neverforget watching him hone his game after practice,one-timing passes methodically into a corner ofhis choice...
...shows: American Gladiators (with Cliffhanger's Renny Harlin producing); Bewitched (Penny Marshall); The Brady Bunch; F Troop; Gentle Ben; Gilligan's Island; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Green Hornet; Hawaii Five-0; Hogan's Heroes (from writer- producer John Hughes); The Invaders; Lost in Space; My Favorite Martian; The Rifleman; The Saint and many, many more...
Justifications for the genre range from nostalgia to mythmaking. "Why do 40-year-old guys buy '66 Corvettes?" asks producer John Davis, who is developing Gentle Ben and The Rifleman. "Because they always loved the car but couldn't afford one when they were teenagers. They're reliving their childhood. It's the same thing with these films." Producer Paula Wagner, who is developing a big-budget update of Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise, goes further. "Television has become our contemporary mythology," she says. Making her case for Mission: Impossible, Wagner notes that Shakespeare based his plays on Plutarch...
...economic aid. "Those stupid lazy bastard Russians," snaps Stern. "They're under communism so long they can't even produce anything." Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager charged with murder, has just appeared on a TV tabloid show. "I wanted her to take off her clothes," says Stern. Former Rifleman star Chuck Connors is dead: "I never liked him. Hated that show...
...some opportunities. One group that sees itself as a potential benefactor from the Los Angeles riots is the National Rifle Association. Already, articles pointing out the benefits of keeping a home arsenal as a defense against armed looters are slated for the June issues of the N.R.A.'S American Rifleman and American Hunter magazines as well as for the upcoming edition of its political action newsletter, NRAction. Although there are no television ads in the works yet, the progun organization is reviewing videotapes of the riots with an eye to see how they might best be used. Says an N.R.A...