Sharon Stone, Heather Locklear Aim Guns, Portraying Cops, Priceless
Big blonde hair power, 1985, L.A., station wagons and rust-free Pintos. LCPD, Sergeant T.J. Hooker's fictitious unit, a police academy combining classroom, outdoors training, plus on the street patrol experience. Hooker (William Shatner), or is he a time-stranded Captain Kirk?, leads these youths through their paces, waddling in his black, tight cop uniform. Why wear black long-sleeved shirts and long black pants, everything tight, as the LAPD and fictional LCPD do? It's the often very hot Greater L.A. Area! Is it simply a tactic to make the cops more likely to snap, using sartorial discomfort as an excuse to discharge firearms? Watching T.J. Hooker three and a half decades after it was made, the show comes across very pro-police, Dragnet fashion. That popular TV show had Jack Webb glorifying the LAPD each week with dramatizations of actual cases. "Only the names have been chang...