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...Moviegoers are tired of action-adventure movies. No, studio bosses are tired of making them. Macho mayhem still turns the wickets: Terminator 2 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were last year's top money winners. The summer before, five actioners (Total Recall, Another 48 Hours, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Die Hard 2) opened in five weeks -- overloading even a male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth...
...Boomerang (June 26), Eddie Murphy also tries a change of pace -- at his peril, according to Grove. "This film does not present Murphy as a winner. It has him falling in love with a girl ((Robin Givens)) who rejects him, so it may have a weakness." But how weak can an Eddie Murphy movie be? Even his flops earn $60 million to $80 million. And the last time he played a romantic naif, in Coming to America, he made megamillions...
...word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard evidence in the form of a tape on which the jurors, like hundreds of millions of TV viewers around the world, could actually see the beating. Says Robin Gant, a student at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, N.Y.: "When the beating first happened, the black community felt this is our chance to show that, yes, we do have rights and you can't beat us within an inch of our lives and get away with...
...very upset at what's happening in the country and I felt the need to be with other people who are very upset," said Robin W. Kilos '83, a professor...
...Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...