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...Paramount, which also released the year's No. 1 and No. 3 films (Beverly Hills Cop II and The Untouchables), is getting more than that. People can't stop talking about this movie, arguing about its characters, seeing in Dan, Beth and Alex creepy visions of themselves and their old flames. "Everybody can identify with obsessive love," says Co-Producer Sherry Lansing. "All of us have made a call in the middle of the night when we shouldn't have, or driven by somebody's house when we shouldn't have. I've never boiled a rabbit...
...Fatal Abstraction." In Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me, a cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to guard a rich woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder. He loves his wife but is seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his child is kidnaped. The cop must wake up to his duties and rely on his wife's cunning to help outwit the killer. Ironically, this exercise in high style may have gone lame with audiences because of its accidental echoes of Fatal Attraction. It's too close, but without...
When Don Simpson checked into Tucson's Canyon Ranch Spa last year, he figured he needed to knock off a dozen pounds. The co-producer of Flashdance, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop knew he "had a tendency to gain weight" after each movie. Still, the string of megahits had only managed to push the scale up to 199 lbs., not too far out of line, he thought, with the standardized chart readings for a 5-ft. 9-in. 40-year-old male. But Simpson got a rude shock when the spa analysis revealed what proportion of his weight...
...defensive, the officer insists that he is not forbidding the street musician to play but only questioning why he is cadging coins. "Times have changed," the angry music fan counters. "The police should not be sticking their noses into matters that don't concern them." The Moscow cop walks away grumbling, "Right now, anything goes...
...laughless comedies deliver their mixed messages more deftly, if not always more successfully. Hooperman, starring John Ritter as a San Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half-hour length. The Slap Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows...