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...neophyte actor took a couple of Richard Pryor hand-me-down roles and parlayed them into movie stardom. In 48 HRS., released last Christmas, Murphy played a sassy convict sprung from stir for two days to help Tough Cop Nick Nolte catch a couple of killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...
...edging for an open space in which to sip their Bowl with 10 ounces of liquor ($7.75) or sample one of the bottled beers from the Kong's 69 Club collection. Worth one trip, but don't forget to bring "positive" ID to get by the moon lighting Cambridge cop at the door...
...gritty N.Y.P.D. interrogation room, the camera pans over the usual cast (a detective, a stenographer, a prosecutor) before zooming in on the suspect. Clifford Brighton, 22, with pockmarks and a bruised eye, describes how he held up a supermarket earlier that day using a hostage: "I grabbed the cop and stuck a gun in him and took him into the store...
...Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging...
...says Anderson, "the Sports don't even act like real communists...the Spartacists are not real leftists; their organization has got to be come kind of right-wing front to discredit the left." He repeatedly assures me personally that the Spartacist League is a "cop front." Likewise, many would have as believe, Leon Trotsky was an agent of the Germani Emperor, of the Mikado, of Hitler...