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Instead, it was given a reprieve--but there have been alterations. This season the brooding Benzali has been replaced by Anthony LaPaglia, whose new character, Jimmy Wyler, is younger, sexier and more emotionally accessible. Meanwhile, the show's ambitious concept of following a single case all season has been scuttled in favor of offering three separate trials that will last about six weeks each. Despite the changes, Bochco insists that the show has maintained its integrity. Says he: "We haven't dumbed it down...
...many of the others are either morally preachy Touched by an Angel clones or inept attempts at re-creating the X-Files, Murder One remains a fine legal thriller with a robust, well-observed appreciation for the egotists who are drawn into the web of splashy criminal trials. Newcomer Wyler is a prosecutor turned defense attorney who lives in a world ethically messier than his predecessor's. Wyler's father took bribes, he himself cuts deals with smarmy tabloid reporters, and he is not above seeking the limelight. There is a becoming earthiness to Wyler that LaPaglia pulls off effortlessly...
...case that brings Wyler into the series is, once again, a crime rooted salaciously in sex. Up for re-election, the Governor of California is murdered in bed with his mistress, and the suspect is a demure schoolteacher, Sharon Rooney (Missy Crider) who appears too Kate Moss-frail to have actually pulled any triggers. Frustrated when he's passed over for a promotion in the prosecutors' office, Wyler manages to grab the job of defending her. In turn, Hoffman's former associates recruit the young gun with the star-making case to head their firm while their old boss...
...Heston's angry letter denying Gore Vidal's comments [LETTERS, May 13] that the subtext of the relationship of characters played by Heston and Stephen Boyd in the film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene. You can see Boyd playing that he is in love...
...suggest, sub rosa, a homoerotic tryst with Heston." That demands a response for the record. Vidal was in fact imported for a trial run on a script that needed work. Over three days, as recorded in my work journal, Vidal produced a three-page scene that director William Wyler rejected after Steve Boyd and I read it through for him. Vidal left the next day. His ludicrous claim that he somehow slipped in a scene implying a homosexual relationship between the two characters insults Willy Wyler and, I have to say, irritates the hell out of me. CHARLTON HESTON Beverly...