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Administrators at some pilot schools admit that the lure of free equipment influenced their decisions to air the program. But other officials insist that they chose Channel One primarily on its merits. "Some people assume we're mindless dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...
Reynolds has gone back to basics. He played a policeman on TV's Hawk and Dan August and in the films Hustle and Sharkey's Machine. In Rent-a-Cop, he is Church, a good detective in bad odor because of a fatally botched drug bust. There's a psychopath (James Remar, all hollow-eyed menace) on the loose, and only a chatty tart (Liza Minnelli) to lead Church to the killer. While Minnelli wears earrings the size of headlights and puts way too much spin on every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become...
ROCK, HOWEVER, PLAYS a much larger role in this album than in her previous Big Science. "Sharkey's Day", for example, is probably the closest Anderson has come to making a song that really rocks. With Belew's sawing, distorted guitar and a dense, varied percussion section firmly driving the melody forward, Anderson delivers the vocals in her haunting, deadpan style, halfway between speaking and singing...
...strained or totally phony argument going. In this case, the great mogul (played with a flashy show of menacing teeth by Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky...
...been told to a '50s reporter for Hep Cat - or to Busby Berkeley. The setting is The Bronx, the characters are Italian, the language is coarse, but the story is one long, carefully embroidered cliche that has its roots in Berkeley's old Warner Bros, musicals. Ray Sharkey has the Warner Baxter role: the tough, brilliant old pro. Peter Gallagher is the ghost of Fabian with the soul of Ruby Keeler: the lucky, plucky ingenue. Sharkey nurses and rehearses his protege, shouts and seduces, puts him through heck and then shoves him onstage. Sure enough: Gallagher goes...