From 1979 to 1985, “The Dukes of Hazzard” was televised every week, detailing the over-the-top and sometimes silly adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, along with their Uncle Jesse and cousin Daisy, as they fought against the machinations of Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane to rip off the hardscrabble citizens of Hazzard County. The series might have started out as serious fare, with tongue in cheek, but quickly migrated to slapstick humor and commentary by the narrator, Waylon Jennings. Jennings even made fun of the situation in the theme song, saying his momma always wondered why they kept showing his hands but not his face on TV. The series premise was that Bo and Luke had once run moonshine that their Uncle Jesse made; he had once been a runner too. But Bo and Luke had been put on probation by the judge for running Uncle Jesse’s shine. Uncle Jesse had ...

  Off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Fisherman Billy Tyne (Clooney) and his crew (Walberg, Reilly, Fichtner etc.) return from a month at sea with a disappointing catch. Currently suffering from a patch of bad luck, the determined Tyne is dead set on breaking this demoralizing streak and cuts his crew’s shore leave short and sets out again three days later. After weeks at sea, and another poor yield, Tyne sets his boat for the distant Flemish Cap where he finally scores a dream catch and heads home with a revitalized crew—but fate holds a nasty surprise for them. Three separate storms are about to collide mid-sea and create a record-breaking atmospheric cataclysm (the Perfect Storm of the title)…and Tyne is heading straight into it. Based on events that occurred in late October 1991, “The Perfect Storm” tells the gripping and tragic story of the swordfishing boat The Andrea Gail, its crew and the Gloucester ...