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...cagers wouldn't be dead, though last season, Princeton opened up with losses to Harvard and Dartmouth, yet went on to cop its 18th Ivy crown...
Compare this film with the equally funny Beverly Hills Cop, which is little more than a two hour long Eddie Murphy show. Even though the characters in that film are doggedly two-dimensional, one emerges from that film feeling more upbeat than after Micki and Maude. Two-dimensional characters beat three-dimensional human beings with one-dimensional minds...
...Christmas? And the answer came in a choral blast that has rocked 2,006 moviehouses: Eddie Murphy! The 23-year-old alumnus of Saturday Night Live, whose first feature film (48 HRS.) was released just two years ago, is Hollywood's uncontested box-office champ. Beverly Hills Cop, a defiantly ordinary action picture that Murphy ignites with his urchin charm, is by far the runaway hit of this holiday season. In its first 23 days Cop earned $64.5 million--more than the combined take of its three closest competitors (Dune, City Heat, and 2010). Trumpets a jubilant Frank Mancuso...
Beverly Hills Cop is a winner too, but eight months ago it was hardly a starter. At that time the property, which had been percolating at Paramount for eight years, was to star Sylvester Stallone. Then Stallone turned in a rewrite of the script, and soon the star and studio parted company. Paramount sent Murphy the script and within hours he agreed to do it. "Directing this movie was like doing live television," Director Martin Brest recalls. "There were seven versions of the script that were cut, pasted and rewritten before each scene. We were reshaping the material every...
...Murphy will remain rich and happy doing what he does so well, so easily. Paramount has secured him for a concert film, referred to familiarly at Paramount as Beverly Hills Cop Goes to London, and five features, possibly including a Cop sequel. His fans--just about everyone--need no catchy titles for his movies. Just call them Eddie V, Eddie VI, Eddie VII. Then watch the lines form and the smiles start to glow...