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The Kojak Effect

Three or four people sent me this news item within a twenty-minute stretch: in the Tampa area, two men named Telly Savalas were arrested within hours of each other. Worse, they were both named for the former television star-they carry his first and middle names, though they have different last names. Almost certainly, there are no statistics kept on this kind of thing: if anyone knows of any other cases of criminals bearing the names of formerly popular crimefighting characters, please advise.

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.



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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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