'Police Woman'

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She's 87 here -- and her roots are still dark...??

 

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She's 87 here -- and her roots are still dark...??

Now THAT is dedication.

 

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And here's Season 1's "Seven Eleven" and it's POLICE WOMAN at its most DALLAS-y.... you have Larry Hagman, Mrs Scotfield, a jaunty John Parker score, and even the title sounds like "Sue Ellen":

 

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An odd, period-piece curio special from Dean Martin I recall seeing in September 1975 -- Angie shows up at around 17:50...

Angie does Parkinson's show in the UK in fall 1980 (her segment begins around 39:45...)

With Johnny Carson in November 1984:

 

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Joan Rivers grills Angie on her love life (January 1984):

Angie and Pavarotti give out an Oscar (the day after the Reagan assassination attempt) in March 1981:

Oct. 1980, on The Don Lane Show from Australia (she's the first guest for the first 25 minutes or so):

 

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The Rock promo focusing on the Alcatraz prison used in POINT BLANK (1967), generally regarded as one of Angie's best films (although I still can't figure out the ending). This short piece is très, très third-quarter-of-the-'60s bleak (Angie appears in it at a couple of points, even participating in a fashion shoot!). But it features a lot more footage of Alcatraz than the actual motion picture does.

In the movie itself, he first scene -- when Lee Marvin wakes her up -- the dialogue sounds obliquely like Angie's talking about Kennedy (which some feel wasn't an accident).

Circa 1968: Angie and Gene Kelly give out music Oscars...

Five seconds before they separated, the Bacharachs give out the best song Oscar...

 

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FactsVerse always gets so much stuff wrong -- for one thing, I'm not sure that woman hugging Sinatra is Angie... maybe Juliet Prowse?

 

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...And successful lesbians:

And go-go gurls with badges...

 

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PW is now the oldest show in TV history where all the principles are still alive.

This is Charlie Dierkop's interview for "A Word on Westerns" they just posted for his 86th birthday (Earl Holliman turned 94 on the same day! And Angie will be 91 at the end of this month).

 

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Miss Angie turns 91 on September 30th!

 

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Well, he's gone...

 

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Well, this is embarrassing... But then Angie openly admits she can't sing.

Actually, she sang this same song a year earlier on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW, and she actually did much better -- until she got to the final note, and they had to bring up the orchestra to drown it out.

EDIT: come to think of it, here it is at about 33:00 into this rather lame BIOGRAPHY episode from 1999.

This is ridiculous; if she knows she can't sing, why does she do it publicly?

 

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2011: 80 year-old Angie discusses her singing on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW and Burt's displeasure at the result; she also discusses The Rat Pack in Vegas while shooting OCEAN'S 11...

1993: Angie and pals discuss WILD PALMS:

"All those eggs I fried" at ~12:30 is a veiled reference to the song "One Less Bell to Answer," the title of which Hal David derived from Angie's commentary during a Bacharach house party, when she kept responding to the guests at the front door.

When Angie and Burt divorced in 1981, after a 5-year separation, Angie asked for no settlement and no alimony, only three years of child support for their 15-year-old daughter.

Linda Evans did the same thing when she left her multi-millionaire husband, Stan Herman, when she could have taken him for a fortune.

The only two actresses considered to play Krystle Carrington, she of the paltry $100,000 pre-nup.

 

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This year, almost 92...

 

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Miss Angie turns 92 on September 30th!

 

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A mini-doc on POINT BLANK and its influence:

 

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Matt Baume does one of his gayfers-in-the-media videos, referencing POILICE WOMAN (and its two lesbian episodes) from about 23:00 thru 29:00...

And who doesn't luv 'em some '70s lesbians??

 

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I started watching this a bit and I've been surprised at how "gritty" it is - I guess I'm mostly used to Spelling's camp-o-rama 70s shows like Charlies Angels, so seeing Angie pick up an electric saw in the second episode and realising what the killer had done and the third episode centering around a serial rapist/killer is a bit shocking. Though in the third episode they make a reference about how this serial killer forces women to dance and strip, even though there's no reason why they would know that since the victims are dead.

 

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I started watching this a bit and I've been surprised at how "gritty" it is - I guess I'm mostly used to Spelling's camp-o-rama 70s shows like Charlies Angels, so seeing Angie pick up an electric saw in the second episode and realising what the killer had done and the third episode centering around a serial rapist/killer is a bit shocking

Oh, the first season's great -- for what it is and its era. It's the best year of the show.

But the program -- and Angie -- are toned down somewhere midway into the second season... Angie got charisma-shamed and, even though the series hit #1 for the week several times during its first year (it was a big hit around the world) there was pressure to suppress her "sexy" and demeaning demeanor. So by the middle of Season 2, she becomes a pleasant, unfocused hostess in her own show, almost a sidekick. She was still on-screen just as much, but they'd stolen her mojo (and, therefore, that of the show).

It was frustrating. But the detractors knocked her out of her frequency, nudged her out of her zone. Her performance changes, it's muted and deliberately so.

There's still the occasional decent episode after that, but somehow it's just not the same. Angie's mesmerizing blend of coquettish toughness has been largely removed, and she just becomes a nice lady who has a badge and hangs out with the guys because the guys like her well-enough to let her.

Though in the third episode they make a reference about how this serial killer forces women to dance and strip, even though there's no reason why they would know that since the victims are dead.

Really good cops always read the script before embarking on an investigation. My guess is that the victim's gyration enzymes were suspiciously high.

 

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Considering how Angie's cover is blown in each episode, she seemingly ends up in danger and they usually end up killing the perp, it's fair to say these cops aren't that great.