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...freshman from West Hempstead, N.Y., fired in eight consecutive points as the Crimson whittled the Big Green's lead from 13 to only two with less than two minutes to play. James, who has led the Crimson in scoring on seven occasions, is the first Crimson cager to cop the award since Neil Phillips did during the 1985-'86 season...
Morrow traveled to Chicago to cover the Democratic Convention. Stepping out of the Hilton Hotel into the battle between police and demonstrators on Michigan Avenue, he was charged by a Chicago cop with billy club raised. "He was about to go for my skull," Morrow says. "I held up my press credentials, like a ridiculous little shield. He thought for a long second, then shouldered me back through the glass doors of the hotel...
...single old- fashioned feel-good comedy was to be found among the ten top-grossing films released in 1987. Audiences seemed to take more pleasure in the spectacle of people and things that went blam! in the night: Fatal Attraction, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Predator. Oh, there were cop comedies (Beverly Hills Cop II, the No. 1 hit, and Stakeout and Dragnet) and a devil comedy (The Witches of Eastwick) and an oddly amoral Michael J. Fox comedy (The Secret of My Success -- sort of Wall Street for the Smurf set). But all these films traded in physical or emotional...
...almost funnier than anything else in Raw. As Cosby is to television, Murphy is to movies: the undisputed popular champ. Cos plays the good father, Eddie the adorable, rank- mouthed boy. And Murphy is more: a gifted mimic with explosive sexual charisma. That's what gives the Beverly Hills Cop films their sleek, self- satisfied zing. But 90 minutes of Murphy, prowling the stage in duds of black and blue (just like his comedy), can wear thin when the text of his sermon is the cupidity of women and the stupidity of men. Richard Pryor, Murphy's stand- up role...
...they were. One day Gorbachev is late leaving home for the Kremlin, and he hurries to his car and tells the driver that he will drive to save time. So the driver sits in the backseat and Gorbachev takes off lickety-split down the road and passes two cops on the side. One of the officers gives chase but in a short time returns to his partner, who asks if he gave him a ticket. 'No,' the cop answers. 'Well, who in the world was it?' asks the other cop. 'I don't know,' replies the first cop...