Word: serials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town close to artistic exhaustion, a go project is The Jewel of the Nile, a sequel to a ripoff (Romancing the Stone) of a canny remake (Raiders of the Lost Ark) of a '40s Saturday-matinee serial. And a winner is something as automatic as a Steven Spielberg special (last year he produced Back to the Future and The Goonies), a Sylvester Stallone sequel (Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV) or a comedy from Saturday Night Live alumni (this year's three Chevy Chase films, Fletch, National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spies Like Us, were among...
...goings-on in the Examiner's newsroom often sound more interesting than anything the reporters cover. After Hearst hired David Burgin, 46, away from the Orlando Sentinel last year to be the Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy...
gence officials, however, contended last week that guns retrieved from the palace bore serial numbers that identified them as part of a shipment that moved from North Viet Nam via Cuba to Nicaragua and on to Colombia...
...leading player in the detective show--Robert Urich, best-known for his role as Dan Tanna on the once-popular serial "Vega$"--was also on location, eliciting surprise and glee from star-struck passersby...
...serial, which appeared this fall, follows the escapades of a former Boston policeman and war veteran-turned-private investigator...