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- I've watched and enjoyed "Perry Mason" for a long time...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | October 24, 1993
- I've watched and enjoyed "Perry Mason" for a long time. I would like to know what happened to the original cast, like Paul Drake who was such a good-looking man. Where is he now?-R.B.      Barbara Hale (Della Street) is the only living cast member of the original series, seen 1957-66. Ray Collins (Lt. Tragg) died in 1965; William Tallman (Hamilton Burger) died in 1968; William Hopper (Paul Drake) died in 1970; and Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) died Sept. 12.      - Was...
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Seminar To Ponder Tv Courtroom Dramas' Effect On Real Life
By Jay Pridmore | May 3, 1996
Are prime-time courtroom dramas a metaphor for American democracy?      Was Perry Mason intimately involved wih his secretary, Della Street?      There is one cultural institution in Chicago that can deal with questions like these and do it in the time it takes to watch the pilot for a new television show. It is the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which is presenting "Just Images II: Lawyers and the Courtroom on Prime-Time Television," a seminar at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
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Perry Mason Back For More
January 4, 1987
NBC is planning to air four more Perry Mason movies in the 1987-88 season. Raymond Burr again will have the title role, and Barbara Hale will be returning as his faithful secretary Della Street.      The network has scheduled two more Mason movies yet this season: "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love," with Gene Barry and Jean Simmons, will air in February. A yet-untitled one will be telecast in the spring.
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- I've watched and enjoyed "Perry Mason" for a long time...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | October 24, 1993
- I've watched and enjoyed "Perry Mason" for a long time. I would like to know what happened to the original cast, like Paul Drake who was such a good-looking man. Where is he now?-R.B.      Barbara Hale (Della Street) is the only living cast member of the original series, seen 1957-66. Ray Collins (Lt. Tragg) died in 1965; William Tallman (Hamilton Burger) died in 1968; William Hopper (Paul Drake) died in 1970; and Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) died Sept. 12.      - Was...
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In "Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam," our...
By Barbara Szul | October 3, 1987
In "Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam," our nation's favorite legal eagle solves another baffling mystery and uncovers a multimillion-dollar bank fraud. Airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC-Ch. 5, "Madam" again stars Raymond Burr as the legendary lawyer. This time out, he defends a man (Vincent Baggetta) accused of murdering his wife (Ann Jillian), a former madam turned public-relations specialist.      Familiar faces helping Mason include secretary Della Street...
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The Faithful Secretary
By Michael J. Bandler | May 16, 1993
Before the women's movement, back when Father knew best and network TV made room for Daddy, when Mary Tyler Moore was Laura Petrie, not Mary Richards, actress Barbara Hale was playing a single working woman on TV.      Hale, now 71, remembers what appealed to her about the role of Della Street, secretary to lawyer Perry Mason on the series that was based on the mysteries by Erle Stanley Gardner.      "When we started (in 1956), it was the beginning of women not working at home. I liked that she was not married.
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That old familiar gang returns to the courtroom to solve...
By Barbara Szul | May 23, 1987
That old familiar gang returns to the courtroom to solve another baffling case on "Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit," the fifth in a series of highly rated movies based on the old TV show. Airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC-Ch. 5, the courtroom whodunit again stars Raymond Burr as intrepid attorney Mason.      This time out, he defends a publisher (Robert Stack) accused of pushing a thriller novelist (Matthew Faison) from the bell tower of a haunted hotel....
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- Give me some info on Josh Brolin of "The Young Riders...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | December 17, 1989
- Give me some info on Josh Brolin of "The Young Riders." Where can I write him?-A.M.      Brolin, 21, is the younger of two sons of actor James Brolin's first marriage. At 16, he met director Dick Donner, who cast him in the feature      "Goonies." He did episodic TV, including the first show of "21 Jump Street," and the TV movie "Prison for Children" before his first series, 1987's "Private Eye," where he met wife Alice (Deborah) Adair. They have a son, Trevor, 1....
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- Give me some info on Josh Brolin of "The Young Riders...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | December 17, 1989
- Give me some info on Josh Brolin of "The Young Riders." Where can I write him?-A.M.      Brolin, 21, is the younger of two sons of actor James Brolin's first marriage. At 16, he met director Dick Donner, who cast him in the feature      "Goonies." He did episodic TV, including the first show of "21 Jump Street," and the TV movie "Prison for Children" before his first series, 1987's "Private Eye," where he met wife Alice (Deborah) Adair. They have a son, Trevor, 1....
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- Who played the lead in the movie "Zootsuit," Ray Sharkey...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | January 17, 1988
- Who played the lead in the movie "Zootsuit," Ray Sharkey of      "Wiseguy" or Edward James Olmos of "Miami Vice"?-M.D.      Olmos shared top billing with Daniel Valdez in the 1981 oddity, a stylized movie filmed like a stage play including shots of the audience, which critics found distracting in an otherwise powerful movie about the railroading of Chicago gang members for a 1942 murder. Sharkey isn`t listed in the cast.      - Are there any biographies of Mae...
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Raymond Burr Makes A Case For Staying Busy
By Maurice Weaver | November 15, 1987
One would think that after portraying Erle Stanley Gardner's      quintessential attorney for nine seasons on CBS, Raymond Burr would have exhausted every aspect of Perry Mason's character, or at least his collection of dark ties and suits.      "In a one-hour show, there was never any time to show what kind of person you were," Burr says. "You didn`t know whether Perry Mason was born in a test tube, or whether Della Street could cook. In the very first (two-hour) show we did, you saw...
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Raymond Burr Makes A Case For Staying Busy
By Maurice Weaver | November 15, 1987
One would think that after portraying Erle Stanley Gardner's      quintessential attorney for nine seasons on CBS, Raymond Burr would have exhausted every aspect of Perry Mason's character, or at least his collection of dark ties and suits.      "In a one-hour show, there was never any time to show what kind of person you were," Burr says. "You didn`t know whether Perry Mason was born in a test tube, or whether Della Street could cook. In the very first (two-hour) show we did, you saw...
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- Who played the lead in the movie "Zootsuit," Ray Sharkey...
By Bettelou Peterson, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | January 17, 1988
- Who played the lead in the movie "Zootsuit," Ray Sharkey of      "Wiseguy" or Edward James Olmos of "Miami Vice"?-M.D.      Olmos shared top billing with Daniel Valdez in the 1981 oddity, a stylized movie filmed like a stage play including shots of the audience, which critics found distracting in an otherwise powerful movie about the railroading of Chicago gang members for a 1942 murder. Sharkey isn`t listed in the cast.      - Are there any biographies of Mae...
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In "Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam," our...
By Barbara Szul | October 3, 1987
In "Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam," our nation's favorite legal eagle solves another baffling mystery and uncovers a multimillion-dollar bank fraud. Airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC-Ch. 5, "Madam" again stars Raymond Burr as the legendary lawyer. This time out, he defends a man (Vincent Baggetta) accused of murdering his wife (Ann Jillian), a former madam turned public-relations specialist.      Familiar faces helping Mason include secretary Della Street...
ENTERTAINMENT
Seminar To Ponder Tv Courtroom Dramas' Effect On Real Life
By Jay Pridmore | May 3, 1996
Are prime-time courtroom dramas a metaphor for American democracy?      Was Perry Mason intimately involved wih his secretary, Della Street?      There is one cultural institution in Chicago that can deal with questions like these and do it in the time it takes to watch the pilot for a new television show. It is the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which is presenting "Just Images II: Lawyers and the Courtroom on Prime-Time Television," a seminar at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at...
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That old familiar gang returns to the courtroom to solve...
By Barbara Szul | May 23, 1987
That old familiar gang returns to the courtroom to solve another baffling case on "Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit," the fifth in a series of highly rated movies based on the old TV show. Airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on NBC-Ch. 5, the courtroom whodunit again stars Raymond Burr as intrepid attorney Mason.      This time out, he defends a publisher (Robert Stack) accused of pushing a thriller novelist (Matthew Faison) from the bell tower of a haunted hotel....
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The Faithful Secretary
By Michael J. Bandler | May 16, 1993
Before the women's movement, back when Father knew best and network TV made room for Daddy, when Mary Tyler Moore was Laura Petrie, not Mary Richards, actress Barbara Hale was playing a single working woman on TV.      Hale, now 71, remembers what appealed to her about the role of Della Street, secretary to lawyer Perry Mason on the series that was based on the mysteries by Erle Stanley Gardner.      "When we started (in 1956), it was the beginning of women not working at home. I liked that she was not married.
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Perry Mason Back For More
January 4, 1987
NBC is planning to air four more Perry Mason movies in the 1987-88 season. Raymond Burr again will have the title role, and Barbara Hale will be returning as his faithful secretary Della Street.      The network has scheduled two more Mason movies yet this season: "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love," with Gene Barry and Jean Simmons, will air in February. A yet-untitled one will be telecast in the spring.
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Perry`s Back With Another Case Of Mason
By Clifford Terry, TV/radio critic | May 25, 1986
As much as I enjoyed Raymond Burr's canny characterization as Perry Mason during the CBS series` long run in the `50s and `60s, I was also constantly annoyed by his stance of superior smugness and hoped that one night some character would sneak up behind him and perhaps plant a "Kick Me" sign on his posterior.      No such luck, of course, but then Mason would have noticed right away and brought the perpetrator before a judge for defamation of character or something.      Anyway, Burr/Mason is...