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Richard Lindheim
In a career spanning four decades, the veteran television executive also produced the NBC comedy B.J. and the Bear.
Richard Lindheim, the co-creator of the 1985 CBS series
The Equalizer, has died. He was 81.
The veteran television executive died Monday morning of heart failure, his son-in-law Ezra Dweck told
The Hollywood Reporter.
Lindheim had a four-decade-long career in television, taking in stints at CBS, NBC, Universal and Paramount, but is most closely associated with
The Equalizer which has spawned a film series starring Denzel Washington and an upcoming TV reboot on CBS starring Queen Latifah.
The Equalizer, which Lindheilm co-created with Michael Sloan, debuted on CBS in September 1985. The crime drama starred British actor Edward Woodward as a well-dressed, Jaguar-driving former intelligence officer who offered his specialist services to people in distress. The series ran for four seasons, ending in August 1989.
He was one of the creators of a pivotal 1980s crime show that served as the inspiration for two successful films and an upcoming high-profile TV reboot.
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Notable Books of 2020: A Bakerâs Dozen of Fiction and Non-Fiction
The memoirs, novels, and graphic novels that stood out most in the year of the pandemic.
Books27/Dec/2020
Itâs the perfect time to read Proust. Thatâs what I thought at the beginning of the lockdown. At the end of the year, I havenât managed even the first page of his
Remembrance of Things Past.
It wasnât just Proust. The pandemic provided privileged time to read, but took away the focus. The Booker Prize winner, the presidential memoir, the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy: all these and more gather dust on the to-be-read pile.