Buster skrine articles
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TV REVIEW: Why I love crime-busters Dempsey and Makepeace
The premise of Dempsey and Makepeace was the oddball pairing of two police detectives – an elegant British noblewoman, Sergeant, Lady, Harriet Makepeace, and a streetwise working-class New Yorker, Lieutenant James Dempsey, both working for an elite and armed unit of the London Metropolitan Police. It was kind of a male-female version of The Persuaders – Roger Moore played the English aristocrat Lord Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis was a street-wise slugger from the slums of the Big Apple. Glynis...
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ESPN's Buster Olney holds bizarre interview with fan after switcheroo trick
Buster Olney wears many hats at ESPN, as an MLB insider, podcast host, analyst and Sunday Night Baseball reporter. Sunday night, Olney added two more roles to his resumé: Detective and marriage counselor. A little explanation is obviously in order. Olney sprang into action after a strange situation in the bottom of the fourth in
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Can genre-buster Edgar Wright breathe new life into The Running Man?
The pun-packed, Arnie-starring original that strayed wildly from Stephen King’s book is one trashy 80s sci-fi romp that could actually benefit from a remakeWhy bother remaking much-loved 80s and 90s science fiction movies? Frankly it never ends well. Len Wiseman’s 2012 reworking of Total Recall, with a baffled-looking Colin Farrell taking over from Arnold Schwarzenegger as the amnesiac dreamer of futuristic secret agent dreams, struggled to capture the bombast of the superbly trashy Paul...