Television
If there’s an expressway to stardom, Jason Gedrick isn’t taking it.
April 6, 1997
It was the reality of the scripts that drew Jason Gedrick to “Falcone,” CBS’ new drama series that follows his character, FBI agent Joseph D.
April 4, 2000
Archives
The 1986 Iron Eagle (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) achieves a kind of perfection of awfulness that only earnest effort can produce.
Nov. 11, 1990
Movies
Very early on, when you start suspecting where “Iron Eagle” (citywide) is heading, you wonder whether it will dare to plunge into all-out ludicrousness.
Jan. 17, 1986
Backdraft (Imagine). Shooting in Chicago.
July 22, 1990
CBS canceled the crime drama “EZ Streets” after last week’s telecast, the program’s lowest-rated yet.
April 7, 1997
Entertainment & Arts
Lifetime’s movie, starring Jason Gedrick, chronicles the facts and protects the victims of the rapist who was heir to Max Factor fortune.
Aug. 11, 2003
Seeking to capitalize on the millions of viewers--most of them men--sure to tune in during the NCAA basketball tournament, CBS will try a virtually unprecedented scheduling stunt by showing eight episodes of the new dramatic series “Falcone” during a nine-night stretch in April.
Feb. 14, 2000
Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn enlist in Orion’s “Navy SEAL,” a tale of counter-terrorism to film in Spain next September.
May 28, 1989
Donald Sutherland joins the cast of Imagine’s “Backdraft,” the drama about an arson investigation currently shooting in Chicago under the direction of Ron Howard.
Aug. 12, 1990