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...accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself as a deputy D.A. to obtain names of witnesses and the prosecutors handling the case. He rang up the coroner's office -- this time masquerading as a cop -- and was provided with details of the murder. In short order White had pieced together enough information to provide lawmen with a credible "confession" from a prisoner he had never laid eyes...
Airplane! alumnus Leslie Nielsen plays Lieutenant Drebin, who sets out in the tried and true cop show quest: avenging the attempted murder of his partner. The first half hour of the film is inspired, from the hilarious credit sequence to Nielsen's first scene, in which he foils an anti-American plot by some of America's most notorious enemies such as Muammar Khaddafi and Idi Amin. The attempted killing of Nielsen's partner (O.J. Simpson) is a slapstick tour-de-force...
...park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of the rote plots and personalities that characterize endless episodes of TV cop shows...
...sensuality as freely, even ( carelessly, as she does her intellect and ambition? If she does so, is she responsible for the prefeminist urges she triggers in men? Or is she just getting what she asked for, in a body language as old as the species? Can every man cop a plea of biological imperatives, of Stone Age lust, when he uses force as a tool of courtship? At what point does the love game turn into a war game, whose body count is one rape reported every six minutes in the U.S. and one rape in four involving multiple attackers...
...blare, lights flash, hearts and motors race. Sometimes the chase is exhilarating, as in Bullitt. Sometimes it is comic, as in Smokey and the Bandit. It invariably involves smashups and high tension, but rarely does anyone get hurt. Alas, nothing could be further from reality. "The pursuit is a cop's most deadly weapon other than a gun," declares criminal-justice professor Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina. Some believe it is deadlier. Says Erik Beckman, professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University: "High-speed chases probably result in a greater toll in injuries and deaths than...