Word: selleck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) the World War I vet who gives flying lessons when not seducing hall the local female population, and his trusty mechanic. Stiuts Jack Weston) Eve needs him and his two biplanes to track down eccentric papa...
...Cleary, on whose book the movie is based, evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...
Matt Houston (ABC, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) is a megarich Texan who seems to have gone into the crime-busting business because he saw too much television. As played, with some finesse, by Lee Horsley, Houston looks a little like Tom Selleck, sounds a lot like James Garner and apparently borrows his wardrobe from J.R. Ewing. Houston has all sorts of technological niceties at his fingertips, from a computer to a whirlybird. At least he has the good taste to not get caught up in the futuristic excesses of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who, in Knight Rider (NBC, Fridays...
...seen better-looking birds served by Frank Perdue. This is my 33rd year on NBC, and for my new special I've got all the hot stars, except E.T.-the line was busy. But we did get two of TV's best: Tom (Magnum P.I.) Selleck, 37, and Linda (Dynasty) Evans, 39. We'll also have a couple of gals who are welcome on my set any day, Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Brooke Shields, 17. Brookie will be joining me in a spoof of Happy Days moved ahead 50 years from now. She'll play...