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Article: The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Mike Sweet column: Goodbye, Boston Legal.(Column)
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- The Hawk Eye (Burlington, IA)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2008
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Byline: Mike Sweet
Dec. 11--It was about a firm of crusading, non-conforming, hysterically funny, personally flawed, and at times outrageously misbehaved lawyers who defended the guilty and the innocent with equal passion, and who took on big, bad establishment wolves and defended the little guys they mauled. Sadly, the prime time ABC series had its two-hour finale on Monday. I haven't been so sad about seeing a show end since they pulled the plug on NYPD Blue. Dennis Franz, Andy Sipowicz, where are you? Now the same lament applies to TV lawyers Denny Crane (William Shatner), Shirley Schmidt (Candace Bergen), Asperger-afflicted Jerry Espenson, (played ...