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...David Sturtevant Ruder, 58, a Northwestern University law professor, ended a six-month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown on Wall Street's insider-trading scandal...
Such were the odds The Untouchables stacked against itself before its June 3 opening. Now, after drawing enthusiastic reviews and a robust $15.9 million in its first week, Paramount's gangster epic is starting to look like Beverly Hills Cop II, Too. The Eddie Murphy action comedy has earned a phenomenal $89 million in its first three weeks. But The Untouchables may challenge Murphy with durability, what the industry calls "legs." A.D. Murphy, Variety's guru of grosses, credits The Untouchables with a "most auspicious beginning. It could run all summer." Privately, industry honchos now believe by year...
...years of the Volstead Act. Al Capone (De Niro), with the police and politicians in his silk pocket, runs the city, abetted by gun- crazy Frank Nitti (Billy Drago). Ness's "untouchable" aides are an Italian- American sharpshooter (Andy Garcia), a bespectacled accountant (Charles Martin Smith) and an aging cop, Jimmy Malone (Connery). Malone is a father figure, an Obi-Wan Kenobi to Ness's Luke Skywalker, alerting him to the ways of the wicked world. Perhaps Ness becomes too alert. He defeats Capone, but, he notes, "I became what I beheld...
...happy to fall into Malone's sack-of-potatoes haberdashery and the film's complex ethnic weave. "There's the Mediterranean style of Capone," Connery notes, "very much in favor of the pleasures of life. Then the Wasp syndrome of Ness, very puritan. And finally the European-Irish cop -- me -- in the middle, finding his way through that minefield...
...last week Ishtar's ticket sales trailed even the inane Ernest Goes to Camp and were not in the same class as Beverly Hills Cop II ($71.6 million in 16 days) and The Untouchables ($3.3 million in its first two). One consolation: Columbia hopes to recover part of its costs from sales of overseas, cable and videocassette rights...