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In a voice soft and trembling, she'd sing her song to Cowboy

*5.* Aha! The woman detective thinks she's found a way to get rid of her partner. At end-of-shift he absentmindedly wished her "Happy Easter", but she knew it was nowhere near Easter. She takes this matter to the squad chief, hoping to get her partner releived. The squad chief is a wiley bureaucrat who rocks NO boats. Casting around, he makes the happy discovery that the detective is a member of an Orthodox church -- which sets Easter by a different calendar. The detective stays put.

But the one most requested by the man she knew as "Cowboy"

I estimate I've been about 40% successful with my try-it-with-one-clue efforts. Trying again: A well-known director's take on small-town Southern Gothic. A suicide is covered up by an attempt to plant evidence suggesting it was a murder. // Black citizens and White citizens are amiable and friendly. In some cases they are related by blood, but this has gone largely unmentioned. // A church pagent is being prepared based on the story of John The Baptist. A lawyer working with the production is called out of rehersal to deal with aspects of the murder charge. He shows up at the jail wearing his own fedora and Pontius Polate's robes. // ("Only crazy people commit suicide!") The woman who covered up the truth (to include eating the suicide note) winds up being charged with the murder herself. Now needing proof that it was, in fact, suicide, she can't get her co-conspiritor to change _her_ account. Can't even reach through the bars and shake it out of her. // The death that began the story leads to the reading of a will. A woman learns that her stately home has become the property of one she always knew as her respectful part-time handyman. // Pints of whiskey. Catfish enchiladas. Talented cast. 1990s. What movie

*Up The Down Spiral Staircase*

Still working on the decorations. Meanwhile*:* She played the tambourine with a silver jingle

Pilate, Pontius -- Frank Thring in *Ben-Hur*

*4.* The two detectives who respond to the extortion complaint are, uh, somewhat flawed as heros. The male partner has worked too many homicides, seen too much suffering. Unable to absorb or throw off the effects, he is pretty far gone into alcoholism. The female partner has coped better with personal problems, but at present she feels her ambitions threatened by the male partner's presence in her cases. Hearing the dog owner's story, she is ready to hand the case off to someone else, but the male partner is heart-torn by the lady's grief. "Don't worry, maam. We'll find your doggie."

*Jet Pilot* (1957) ??

Leiter, Felix (CIA Agent) -- Norman Burton in *Diamonds Are Forever*

BRIT -- He blotted his copybook. AMER -- He fouled up his record or resume`

Ardmore (Officer) Harry -- Peter Jason in *Streets Of Fire*, (1984)

*3.* It's easy to snatch the dog selected for the crime. The champion Schnauzer has been in his care several times, and they absolutely adore each other. But it turns out that the ageing divorcee who owns the dog is not actually wealthy. She occupies the house in the ritzy old-money neighborhood where she and her ex once lived together, but she can barely afford to own and run the place. Desperate with panic and (as always in such cases) against the instructions of the kidnapper, she calls in the police.

Aquarious, Aquariouuuuusss. Still working on the trimmings...

I still say _David Niven_, and I'm sticking to it. 1. Sandhurst education -- British equilavent of a West Pointer. 2. Born on the Saint's Day of one Saint David. 3. Named a Legionnaire of the Order Of Merit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (What actor got the other one?) Message was edited by: cmvgor

*51* "Lordy, Lordy, I wish they'd hurry up and invent the laptop!"

*2.* The desperate gambler, who runs a boarding kennel (and has a sideline grooming and training the animals for high-money dog shows), comes up with a plan to kidnap a champion pooch for ransom.

I'll try another one... *1.* A man has a nagging wife and a gambling habit. He is skilled at animal care, and could make a good living at it if not for picking the wrong teams. The Steelers win over the Cowboys; he's on the wrong side of some very demanding people. (8,567) Message was edited by: cmvgor

...I think I know where we are now... This is the DAWNING of the age of Aquarius...

Quincy -- Yaphet Kotto in *Out Of Sync* (1995)

> ♫ Then peace will guide the planets ♫ Okay, pastman, how the heck do you get those musical notes on the screen?

'Fess up. Actually you're David Niven.

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And Jupiter aligned with Mars... You'll need new partenrs from here on. I was around when that was a radio standard, but I remember little beyond this point.

Newton, Biggy -- Jim Burke in *Sometimes A Great Notion*, AKA *Never Give A Inch*