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...with United's would-be owners. One apparent concern: the ability of the employees to handle the huge debt involved. As the banks stepped back, United's stock , fell 41 a share to close the week at 122. "The main problem," said a financial insider, "is this deal is stale...
...this reclusive 44-year-old San Jose State University history professor receiving so much attention? His boosters say it is because Steele's deft prose has invigorated a stale debate. "There is a freshness to his writing," says producer Thomas Lennon, who persuaded Steele to do the PBS special Seven Days in Bensonhurst after reading one of his essays in Harper's. "By making himself his own laboratory, he cuts at familiar issues in a very unfamiliar way." Says author Stanley Crouch, like Steele a critic of affirmative action: "One of the most important things he is doing is questioning...
Though Ross's production occasionally falls into the generic failing of hollow dialogue and stale blocking, he does an impressive job with the cast. Lead Hopkins makes a strong showing. His performance is consistently focused, and though he perhaps lacks the haggard air the playwright intended for the character, he replaces it with a flawless befuddlement...
...Murray pulls off a bank heist in a clown suit, but he doesn't need a red nose to be funny. The actor's glancing, genial sarcasm buoys the action for the first half-hour. Then this caper comedy sinks into a puddle of urban rancor. Who needs another stale chorus of I Hate New York...
Hill Street Blues (NBC, 1981-87). Though it grew stale and self-important, Steven Bochco's gritty, rambunctious, richly textured look at a big-city police precinct set new standards for TV drama...