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...moment's silence, please, for the late great Eddie Murphy, wild child in the promised land of superstardom. Now missing and presumed dead, the bold young adventurer was last seen in the 1984 megahit Beverly Hills Cop. Though a figure billed as "Eddie Murphy" has been spotted flitting through the underbrush of a variety of dismal movies since then, it seems likely that he is being played by a stunt double. Or possibly a stunted double...
...when he finally soloed in the first Beverly Hills Cop, the context was artfully fashioned for him. He was a mean-streets guy dislocatingly, dangerously plunked down on the bland streets of America's ultimate suburbia. He was poised between ambition and anger, between the need to ingratiate himself with the predominantly white mass audience and, at the same time, the need to tell it hard truths. He was a performer running risks with his audience, but more important, with his slightly schizoid self. Destructive possibilities -- of the comedian's always tenuous bond with his audience, therefore of career -- were...
Dinkins has been hampered by an economic decline aggravated by massive layoffs on Wall Street. To balance the city budget, he must raise $850 million from higher taxes and slash services by $303 million. That will mean backing away from campaign promises to put a cop on every subway train and provide housing for the homeless. Managing cutbacks would be difficult under any circumstances, but Dinkins has filled many of the top posts in his administration with outsiders, such as Police Commissioner Lee Brown (recruited from Houston) and Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers (from Indianapolis), who have no experience...
This good-cop, bad-cop routine has become a staple of the Bush White House. No one plays the heavy better than Sununu, and no one takes more heat on Bush's behalf. That is why Bush picked Sununu as his right-hand man, and why he prizes...
Sununu, on the other hand, is a natural lightning rod. He is not only willing to take heat for the President but "loves to take heat -- and gives as good as he gets," says New Hampshire G.O.P. Senator Warren Rudman, a Sununu friend. As Bush's bad cop on environmental issues, Sununu drew the fire of the Sierra Club and other activist groups, which denounced him for consistently siding with corporate polluters. They scarcely mentioned Bush, even though Sununu was only carrying out the President's policies. Such loyalty is prized by all chief executives, but especially by George Bush...