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...Many cops on the street charge that they are being asked to do more with less; just getting the equipment they need requires a major bureaucratic struggle. "A car that breaks down while you're pursuing a suspect? That's stress. A gun that may not work? That's stress," says John Johnston, a 20- year veteran of the Los Angeles police department. The criminals, he takes in stride: "Dealing with bad guys is why I became a cop. What gets you down is the bureaucracy." In his office in the L.A.P.D.'s Northeast division, which includes the grimiest stretch...
City Slickers 2 and Beverly Hills Cop 3. If you are going to recycle all of the jokes that you have used in earlier movies, then make sure that they were the funny ones. Billy Crystal and Eddie Murphy used to have talent, and I'm sure that they still do, but it was nowhere to be seen in these turkeys...
...recognize a tv breakthrough? Network publicists usually try hard to sound the alert -- a cop show with nudity! an Asian-American sitcom! She TV too arrived on ABC last month with a high-concept selling point: TV's first sketch-comedy show focusing on, and creatively dominated by, women. Actually, from a commercial standpoint the female angle has probably hurt more than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects...
DIPLOMACY: Good Cop, Bad Cop...
...royal farce continues. Last week the Queen of England's corgis, gathered at London's Heathrow Airport to welcome her home after a glum royal tour of Canada, passed the time by terrorizing a German shepherd employed by the police. The cop dog was rescued. Meanwhile, the ravening tabloids were already squaring off for the November confrontation between two royal tell-all books: Jonathan Dimbleby's on Prince Charles, based on his recent TV program; and the sequel by Andrew Morton to his 1992 super-best seller on the Princess of Wales, called Diana: Her New Life...