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Prof. Laurel Urich, Tuesday, November 3, 12:30pm
...sense, the Vegas trend is an old story--mindless escapism in the mold of Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island and, yes, the Robert Urich Vega$ (though, for his part, Spelling says some of the new, decency-cautious series "make Vegas seem like a church"). But the new programs also show how some of our mores have changed. Consider the casino-based series, which place the viewers' sympathies with management--that is, with mammoth businesses predicated on systematically beating the little guy, one hand at a time. TV once made populist heroes of rascally underdogs like Bo and Luke Duke...
...dramas started with "Las Vegas," and sadly, no, it's not a remake of the Robert Urich classic (hence the "Las"). It is what looks to be a kind of glitzy, action-heavy soap opera for guys, set in what we're told is the glamorous world of casino security, which apparently involves more than keeping drunk computer salesmen from groping the cocktail waitresses. Starring James Caan, Nikki Cox and Cheryl Ladd, it comes from the writer of "The Fast and the Furious" (It had a writer! Who knew?) and is assured to be a hit, says Zucker, because...
DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, ruggedly handsome TV-series stalwart; of synovial-cell sarcoma, a rare cancer of the body's joints that the optimistic Urich lectured about regularly in an effort to educate and to raise money for fighting the disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Much loved as private eye Dan Tanna in the late-'70s drama Vega$ and as a Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire, Urich also appeared in the '70s sitcom Soap, the film Turk 182!, the Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove and, in 1998, as the ship's captain in a revived version...
...inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame, White was appointed to the court in 1962 by John F. Kennedy, served 31 years and was known for his conservative and often dissenting opinions, ruling on landmark decisions such as Miranda v. Arizona and Roe v. Wade. DIED. ROBERT URICH, 55, Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his starring roles in the television detective sagas Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire, of synovial cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that attacks the body's joints; in Thousand Oaks, California. DIED. RUTH FERTEL, 75, self-made success and founder...