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...played on SNL, Murphy was able to jump from TV-sketch artist to big-screen draw. He took two roles Richard Pryor had rejected, in 48 HRS. and Trading Places, and overtook Pryor as the top black film star. He stepped into a Sylvester Stallone part, in Beverly Hills Cop, and strutted to the top of the world. Cop II was even bigger. Raw, a concert film, and Coming to America cemented his grand rep. He had a hit pop single and sold-out tours. Fast Eddie had become Vast Eddie -- and then, as sure as excess follows success, Half...
Zeckhauser, 'Vice President for Administration, plays good cop. She is the highest-ranking member of management's bargaining team...
Last week more people were trying to shut him down. A group of law- enforcement officials in Texas called for a boycott of Time Warner, the parent company of his record label, Sire (and of TIME) because of one of his recent tracks, Cop Killer ("I'm 'bout to bust some shots off/ I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"). Said Doug Elder, president of the Houston Police Officers Association: "You mix this with the summer, the violence and a little drugs, and they are going to unleash a reign of terror on communities all across this country...
...part. A few of the gang had already been taken down by the police or other gangs. "You got a chance," Ice-T recalls them saying. "White people like you, man. They've got their hand out; you should take it." His second big-screen appearance, as an undercover cop in last year's surprise hit New Jack City, brought critical acclaim. He will share top billing in Universal's The Looters, a movie about a team of industrial- security experts, originally scheduled for release in July but delayed and retitled after the Los Angeles riots...
...example, where he lives with his girlfriend Darlene Ortiz and their six-month-old baby boy; his collection of half a dozen sports and antique cars; his trips to such spots as Hawaii and Asia. But he knows whom to thank for it all. "It wasn't a cop or social worker who got me here," he says. "It was my boys, like the ones now on death row, who are the reason I'm doing it. That's why there's a real allegiance to the street in my music...