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...other hand, Royko, played by Burt Young (Adrienne's chunky brother in Rocky), is believeable, since he does not seem to take either the killings of the movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...
...typically Southern Californian, the land of t-shirts, bikinis, flourescent sweatsuits, and one-sentence condolences and philosophies. An agitated shore patrolman, blurts; "Are we looking for a person, or a thing? Is it real, or unreal?" It's all really just too stupid to be funny. The California cop tells his men; "Stretch your minds, tickle your brains, eat fish, get stoned-I don't care. We need ideas." This sounds like Jeffrey Bloom's screenwriting methodology. And, unfortunately, it doesn't work...
Soon after the hilarious Douglas Show sequence, though, Shrinking Woman starts to deteriorate. Schumacher and Wagner cop out; their cruel and gleeful dissection of the tacky American bourgeoisie stops in mid-slice: there are no more scences of Pat and her hubby getting frisky to the beat of Muzak disco, no more jokes about Explodo-Gum, the treat that causes green saliva to ooze from the mouths of sweet-toothed kids. Instead, the filmmakers concentrate on a hackneyed sub-plot about the Organization for World Management, a sinister group of slick, young corporate types who plot to control the world...
...Eight of the meanest-looking D.C. motorcycle cops have been escorting us everywhere we go," he said, adding, "We've been playing tag with these same guys for so many years we practically know them by name. I even recognize the cop who beat the hell out of me at Nixon's inaugural...
...title formula is for a synthetic fuel invented by Nazi scientists. The conceit is that it has been kept off the market since World War II by the oil interests in order to keep up the price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists...