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...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 day, and whenever we needed inspiration, Eddie would provide it. That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there...
...this story, the god is black. "Eddie is beyond brilliant," says Brest. "Audiences can vicariously enjoy a ride on his quicksilver mind, whirling a million miles an hour." Robert Wachs, Murphy's comanager since 1979, gauges the actor's appeal this way: "People want to gift wrap him and take him home." Joe Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know...
BEVERLY HILLS COP Directed by Martin Brest; Screenplay by Daniel Petrie...
...fact become a referendum on the Mitterrand government. Indeed, the Socialists suffered their worst losses in large cities, where campaigning had centered not on local issues or personalities but on national policy. As the results came in, Socialist cities fell like dominoes-first the Brittany port of Brest, then the champagne capital of Reims, then the major industrial center of Nantes. The most sobering and startling of all losses was in the southeastern university town of Grenoble. There Conservative Alain Carignon trounced Socialist Hubert Dubedout, who has managed a model city for 18 years; the margin was a jolting...
...Palestinian issue, was the firm conviction that God had given the West Bank to the Jews. And there was something else: a determination, born of his experience in the Holocaust, to do whatever was necessary to protect Israel. Begin's father, a leader of the Jewish community in Brest Litovsk, Poland, was said to have been thrown by the Nazis into a river at gunpoint while weighted down with sacks filled with rocks; he died, along with many others from the same community. Begin's mother was also murdered by the Nazis, as was his brother Herzl. Even today Begin...