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...most people, losing a wallet is an annoying inconvenience. For Terry Dean Rogan, it was shattering. Rogan, 27, misplaced his billfold in the Detroit area in January 1981. The following year a man, apparently using Rogan's identity cards, was linked to two murders and two robberies in Los Angeles, and a warrant in Rogan's name was entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer network. In the next 14 months, Rogan was arrested and jailed five times in Michigan and Texas, usually after police had first stopped him for traffic violations...
Last week Rogan, who lives in Saginaw, Mich., and says he has never been to California, sued the city of Los Angeles and two of its detectives for leaving his name in crime computers after he had repeatedly asked them to clear him. Rogan says the snafu caused him family problems and cost him a chance for a job. "I started drinking more," he says. "All I could think about was .38s at the side of my head...
Curious lapse: once young Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) reluctantly leaves his dismal trailer park and his pert girlfriend (Catherine Mary Stewart) and arrives on Rylos, staging area for the paltry battle to come, he is either too polite or too dense to mention its uncanny resemblance to the mechanical landscapes scattered about the Star Wars galaxy. Of course he can't hear the score (marked-down John Williams) and is perhaps too caught up in the action to notice how much everyone and everything he meets resembles software, hardware and ideas people have all had just about enough...
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE Directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller; Screenplays by John Landis, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson and Josh Rogan...
...Rogan added: "Joe's a great competitor but being from Harvard he just doesn't know how to win--Nitti and I are trying to teach...