Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sam Barrington...
...Sam Genirberg...
Even The La Palina Smoker was not enough to keep alive United Independent Broadcasters, the tiny network on which it was heard; in 1928 the owner approached Paley's father and offered to sell. Sam refused, but Bill, who had $1 million in his own account, grabbed the bargain, a measly $503,000, and ran. UlB's problem, he recognized, was that it was not big enough. He reorganized, offering greater inducements to affiliates, and within the space of a few months increased the network from 16 stations to 49. Along the way, it was renamed...
...students stabbed each other to succeed at it. In Osborn's new expose. The Associates, Samuel Weston, fresh from Harvard Law School, shares those passions. In Weston's lofty view, work at Bass and Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty and thoroughly obsessed by her job. Her few excursions into sex make Last Tango in Paris seem tender. When she dumps Weston to take up with Lawrence, an associate who wants to make...
Maury Leiter as "Ozzie" the magician is too cute for his own good, not quite capturing the look-at-me-and-laugh-at-a-real-moron role he is given. But George Melrod--easily the star of the show--as "Nick, Sam Nick", the detective, is the quintessential Columbo parody, from that cultivated unshaven look to his rapid-fire delivery. Nicks' exchange with Natalie in the interrogation room is really the funniest scene in the show; it makes you forget that he can't sing. Jay Bacal as the broker is aggressively mediocre, weighed down by an insecure voice...