Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he hailed the program as a success, Young said yesterday he wasn't so sure it would be offered again, explaining that "you can't get the mayor of Cambridge trotting around the streets with students every...
Both soccer squads reached the NCAA quarterfinals last season, and hope to have similar success this year with the influx of new talent...
...seeds of this new cop show were planted in mundane TV fashion, in the Burbank, Calif., office of NBC's Tartikoff. Trying to figure out how the network might cash in on the success of rock videos, he had jotted down a few notes to himself; one read simply, "MTV cops." Tartikoff presented the notion to Anthony Yerkovich, 34, formerly a writer and producer for Hill Street Blues, who related a movie idea he had been mulling, about a pair of vice cops in Miami. Yerkovich went to the typewriter and turned out the script for a two-hour pilot...
...peach, the carpet has a magenta stripe, and even the lines in the parking garage have been repainted pink. Some civic leaders were originally unhappy at the prospect of a network- TV series blaring the city's crime problems into living rooms across the nation. But Miami Vice's success has quieted most of the naysayers. Miami officials estimate that the production contributes $1 million per episode to the city's economy, and the show may even be boosting the tourist trade. "I like Miami Vice," says Mayor Maurice Ferre. "It shows Miami's beauty." Adds William Cullom, president...
...Fighting Joe" Hooker, who would not fight. Grant, the failure, succeeded. Down the years, if anyone has bothered to think about Grant, he has had to wonder whether the man was a genius (his native genius hidden till the crucial moment) or a nonentity who blundered into momentary success, who arrived at immortality by accident. Ronald Reagan is a leader of totally different temperament and tailoring, but one sometimes hears the same puzzlement over his luck and political successes. In this comparison of qualifications, acting in Hollywood is the moral equivalent of selling cordwood in St. Louis or clerking...