The Fugitive: Fear in a Desert City (1963) Vera Miles Stars

Source:IMDB- Vera Miles & David Janssen. I don't think you need Superman's vision to tell who is who.

"Being a physician with keen clinical acumen, Kimble is quick to pick up on the husband's dangerous paranoia, but is confronted with an internal moral conflict to flee in the interest of self-preservation versus to stay out of Hippocratic devotion to the desensitized pianist and her son." 

From IMDB 

"Pilot,S01 Ep01,The Fugitive,Fear In A Desert City,1960s Full Episode. 1960s American Television Series." 

Source:Johns Films- Brian Keith as Edward Welles.

From Johns Films 

The Fugitive is not a TV series that I can watch all the time or am interested in every episode. I think it got off to a great start with the pilot film and with this pilot episode and it closed with what I would say perfectly with the movie at the end, where the one-armed man is finally caught in Stafford, Indiana. And in-between the pilot film and the series finale, there are episodes that really do stand out, with excellent plots, writing, and guest stars. This episode is a perfect examples of that. 

Most of the cast members in this episode either had major movie or TV careers or both. We're talking about excellent character actors, as well as lead actors and actresses, who all had major TV and film careers. I think that's one way you can tell if a show is not just an excellent show, but a memorable show, something that's shown over and over and has a long run either in syndication or in cable. Shows like that, are shows that people want to work on because they know they're working with great people both actors and writers, as well as directors. The Fugitive was one of those shows. 

Just look at the cast of Fear in a Desert City: 

David Janssen - Richard Kimble 

Vera Miles - Monica Welles 

Brian Keith - Edward Welles 

Barry Morse - Phillip Gerrard 

Harry Townes - Sergeant Burden 

Barney Phillips - Cleve Brown 

William Conrad - the narrator

The Fugitive was not some TV series that starts out in syndication and then struggles just to get through one season, with most of the cast just looking for any break that leads them to something big and better. This was a show that good, successful, intelligent, people in Hollywood, wanted to part of and work on. 

Vera Miles as usual, plays the beautiful pussycat, who seems too cute to scare a fly. But as usual, she plays a woman whose a lot tougher than her adorable disposition. And unlike from the Columbo episode, she really is too cute to kill a fly. 

Richard Kimble (played by David Janssen) of course is The Fugitive whose simply trying to survive on the run and avoid capture, who simply wants a job to support himself in the latest town that he's hiding in. But as most things in life, it's never as easy as someone might want it to be. He meets Monica Welles (played by Vera Miles) a co-worker of his at this casino bar, who has her own problems and he falls in love with her and helps her out. 

The pilot film where the murder and trial goes down, where everyone actually gets to meet Dr. Kimble's wife, is a great way to start off a TV series. But this episode just keeps that ball moving and you see why this series was as good as it is and why the reruns are still on cable today. 

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Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973) Peter Falk & Vera Miles Star

Source:Columbo Phile- left to right: Vera Miles & Sian Barbara Allen.

"Beauty industry Empress Viveca Scott (Vera Miles) has fallen on comparatively troubled times. Sales are down, she’s lost some high-profile outlets, and the vultures – namely arch-rival David Lang (Vincent Price) – are circling. She needs a miracle, and she seems to have found one in the shape of a ground-breaking skin cream that makes wrinkles disappear!

There’s a fly in the ointment, though. The formula has been stolen by handsome young chemist Karl Lessing (Martin Sheen looking very young and handsome), who has diddled Viveca and and co out of the correct formula and is willing to sell it to the highest bidder – who just happens to be David Lang." 

From Columbo Phile 

"Viveca Scott runs Beauty Mark, the cosmetics company whose products are in every woman's home. With sales dropping, she's counting on the miraculous new beauty cream created by her chief chemist to boost sales and overtake her rival, David Lang, but the chemist's assistant steals the formula. Scott attempts to negotiate with him but, in a rage, knocks him over the head with a heavy microscope, killing him. Her rival's secretary finds out and attempts to blackmail her, but the cosmetics queen's worst news is that the rumpled, redoubtable Lt. Columbo is on the case." 

Source:IMDB- Vera Miles stars.

From IMDB

"A cosmetics manufacturer is suspected of murdering an employee (Martin Sheen) who stole a wrinkle-removing formula." 

Source:Columbo- Vera Miles & Peter Falk. Perhaps you can tell for yourself which one is which.

From Columbo 

In one of these photos the caption coming from Viveca Scott (played by Vera Miles) is: "I couldn't kill a fly." That's not completely true. More like Viveca Scott (played by Vera Miles) couldn't scare a fly. She's so cute and sweet and to a certain extent charming on this show, that you would think that she would be one of the last people in the world, (or perhaps just one of the last people in Los Angeles) who could kill anyone. 

But Vera's adorableness in this film is one thing that makes her a perfect murderer suspect, if not murderer, because no one would expect that 5'3, maybe 110 pound babydoll like Vera Miles, (even though she's 44 at this point) could murder anyone. For that reason alone, Vera would've made a great CIA assassin, a TV vice detective, perhaps a detective sergeant with her own crew, similar to Angie Dickinson on Police Woman in the mid 1970s.

I got into this episode of the Columbo series 4-5 years ago and was blown away by the fact that Vera Miles was on it. And thanks to Sundance and COZI-TV, probably seen this film 10 times now and even have it on DVD. Only 70 minutes, not a dull moment in it and that plus Vera's presence and her being so cute and beautiful on it and just comes off as a total sweetheart on it, (at least for a two-time murderer) I can see it over and over again, to the point that I wanted to write about it.  

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Oxygen: 'The Infamous Case of Pamela Smart'

Source:Oxygen- showing a clip from the NBC Dateline piece on this story.

"Pamela Smart is often considered one of the first true crime "celebrities," a seemingly normal everyday woman accused of murdering her husband. Messy theories, a tampered crime scene, and a series of strange factors made for a heavily publicized case leading to her eventual imprisonment. Watch new episodes of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, Wednesdays at 8/7c on Oxygen." 

From Oxygen 

I was in junior high when this story broke in early 1990. Actually, I just a few years younger than William Flynn, who Pamela Smart hired to kill her husband. I might have heard a little something about this story when he broke in 1990, but it's really the last 5-10 years when a real effort on her part has been made to get herself a sentence reduction and give her a chance at freedom on the outside again, that I've been following this story closely. 

I guess it's her guilt that's never been a question for me. I think she's definitely guilty as far as I'm concern and has even finally admitted that the last few years. It's her sentence that I've always had a problem with. Her accomplices are currently free, even though they're the ones who actually killed Greg Smart (Pamela's husband) and did it in first degree and killed him simply because Pamela wanted them to and perhaps promised sex in exchange. 

I think had Pam Smart just confessed and to her part in the crime which was hiring the boys to murder her husband, she might not be a free woman right now, (and I'm not a lawyer) but I doubt she would've received life without the possibility of parole. Maybe 25-30 years to life and have a real shot at freedom, especially with the life that she's had in prison and what she's done with her time the last 30 plus years or so. 

I think even if she never confessed to the crimes, since her accomplices who actually murdered her husband are currently free, life without no possibility of parole, especially in a state like New Hampshire, which obviously doesn't have a lot of murderers in it, that's known as the live free or die state, I think 30 to life would've been more acceptable. And then the parole board could say: "We appreciate everything that you've done with your time in prison. But if you want to get out, you have to pay full responsibility for your role in this crime." 

Pam Smart has really been her own worst enemy in this case, staring with hiring teenage boys to murder her husband. And then denying her involvement in the crimes the last 30 years and trying to get released and off free for them.  

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CNN: Inside Politics: 'Donald Trump’s House GOP Allies Travel To New York To Discredit Manhattan DA'

Source:CNN- U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) vs Manhattan, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

"House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a New York field hearing on Bragg’s home turf." 

From CNN 

I know I'm not a lawyer and if that is not a newsflash for anyone, you really do have no idea who I am. But, you have a U.S. Congressional committee, in this case, the House Judiciary Committee, led by Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) trying to interfere, with American tax dollars, into a municipal criminal investigation, against one of their own residents, who also happens to be a private citizen as well, in Donald J. Trump. 

Where's the jurisdiction here? What standing does a Federal institution, (in this case the U.S. House of Representatives) have to investigate into the affairs of a municipal investigation? (Meaning the Manhattan, New York District Attorney's Office) I'm not qualified to give out legal advice, but I think that's what would be the argument for Manhattan DA, against the House Republicans. 

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Real Time With Bill Maher: 'New Rule, How The Left Was Lost'

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher- telling the Far-Left in America to grow up.

"Bill slams this ridiculous new era of mind-numbing partisanship, where simply speaking truth to your own party can make you an instant hero to the other side." 

From Real Time With Bill Maher 

Because of America's crazy and outdated two-party system, you have two, large, political parties in America, that have two crazy factions in it. Which means you have a Democratic Party that believes in both liberal democracy, quality of opportunity, equal rights, and equal justice, as well as personal freedom is dangerous, capitalism is racist, free speech is bigoted, minorities and women should be treated better than the majority population and Caucasian men. Because the Democratic Party has a Center-Right and Center-Left, that believes in liberal values that I mentioned before and a Far-Left that believes in the crazy values that I just mentioned. 

So America has a Democratic Party that looks and acts like the adults in the room, but only because they are the adults in the room. Who tend to run the Democratic Party and don't need a gerrymandered district to get elected to anything, who can not just get elected statewide in swing states, but who can get elected statewide in Democratic states. (Where Far-left Democrats can't, like in California) And a Far-Left that really should be in the Green Party (when they're not occupying mental institutions) who can't get elected anywhere, to anything, that doesn't just have an overwhelmingly Democratic population, but left-wing Democratic population. 

I'm not saying America should have a parliamentary political system, because that would make me a crazy leftist as well. But the two-party system is why America has a Democratic Party that has two political factions that simply don't agree on much, because the Far-Left has nowhere else to go, because they represent such a small percentage of the country. And the Green Party is simply to small for them to get elected to anything, that's worth anything in America. 

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Real Time With Bill Maher: 'Monologue: Time's Up for Governor Cuomo'

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher- talking about the downfall of Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat, New York)

"Bill recaps the top issues of the week, including Barack Obama's birthday plans and the growing pressure on NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign." 

From Real Time With Bill Maher  

At risk of stating the obvious, which I can assure you this is not the first time I've taken this risk: Governor Andrew Cuomo had to resign. He literally had no choice, because it was either that or he gets impeached convicted his own party in the New York Legislature (Assembly and Senate) and he would be like the Richard Nixon of New York (for anyone who was born in the 20th Century, or remembers hearing about it) where his own party leadership tells him: "Dude, we don't even want you as Governor anymore. Leave now and we won't kick your ass out." 

Now having said all that: if you look at the politics of this, now the new Governor Kathy Hochul will have a clean slate and be able to run for Governor herself next year and not with a thousands pounds of baggage that New York Democrats would have to carry around with them every time, including when they try to catch a flight or even go to the bathroom. 

New York Republicans will have to try to run on their own records and perhaps even away from Donald Trump (like the Japanese tried to run from Godzilla) if they're running statewide. And have to try to convince New York voters, even upstate voters of why they're better qualified to run the New York Government, than the Democrats. So the Cuomo resignation could become a political boomerang.  

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Jack Bauer: Falling Down (1993) Park Beggar Scene

Source:Jack Bauer- Michael Douglas at his best.

"Falling Down - Park Beggar Scene (1080p) Pretty funny scene." 

From Jack Bauer 

The title of this scene could've been "how to spot a phony" because that's exactly what William (played by Michael Douglas) does in this scene. 

The beggar (played by John Fleck) sees William as his next target and thinks the guy must have money because he has a briefcase, is wearing a white shirt and tie. He must also think that William is a dipshit (to be frank) because his gives him this bullshit (to be frank) story about a guy down from Santa Barbara whose just run into some bad luck and would like William to help him out. 

But William who has just been fired and isn't doing so well himself wants nothing to do with the bum in the park and calls bullshit on him and puts the bum in his place, which is this park where he belongs. 

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