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From: heuring@boulder.UUCP (Vincent Heuring)
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Subject: Re: St. Elsewhere, Mark Harmon
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:04:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:04:15 1985
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BTW, the slashing of Bobby Calldwell by a woman wielding a
razor blade between her teeth is not original to St. E. I first
saw it in a gritty cop movie (I think the title was Blue Knights -
no flames please) starring Paul Newman  and Ed Asner. The movie may
have inspired HSB, as it had the same noisy, bustling, semi-cynical
view as HS.

Anyway, in the movie, this hooker was seriously into drugs, and got her
jollies by slashing her johns with a razor held between her teeth,
"when they least expected it."  She came to a bad end, though, when
she tried her little prank with a fella who took exception,
and proceeded to stick her in the tummy
several times with a shiv.  She ended up rolled up in a 
roll of carpet, dumped in a vacant lot.  (And of course, the
cops never did solve the mystery of the razor slasher).