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...comedy Showtime, starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, features De Niro as a serious, hardworking cop and Murphy as the over-the-top actor wannabe who gets in his way. The movie sells itself as a spoof on the buddy cop genre, with hilarious results...
Insomnia, due out in May, is even darker. In it Williams plays a stalker who murders a young woman and taunts the detective who flies out to Alaska to find him. "It's two opposite extremes: Pacino playing a cop who can't sleep and me playing this devil's advocate with him." Williams prepared for the role by watching tapes of an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer--"to get his conversational tone; it was so calm." Death to Smoochy is a comedy but not a light one. He plays a TV clown who, incensed at being replaced by Smoochy...
...life. A deranged neighbor had abducted her 15-year-old son and was holding him ransom with a meat cleaver. His demands: $100 and a car. Fifty policemen came to the rescue?and then, Wang says, the dithering began. The abductor claimed to be related to a top cop, and, Wang says, "the officers spent all their time trying to figure out what kind of a relative he was." After a fruitless, 8-hr. standoff, the neighbor sliced Wang's son through the back of the neck with the machete. He died four days later...
...Liang and Li now lead a grassroots movement, a hobby not recommended for the timorous. Li's son, a guard at a grammar school, fled Lanshan after hooligans beat him with metal bars. (Li suspects they were sent by the police.) According to Li, one local cop has warned that if she continues her activism, "he'll tear out my eyes. I told him when I'm dead, my family will carry on." Even as she spoke in her home with TIME, police dropped by her gate to ensure she hadn't gone to Beijing to protest at last week...
Army General Tommy R. Franks, commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command, is the Pentagon's beat cop in the world's toughest neighborhood, a slice of potential trouble that includes Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, in his office at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.--decorated with colorful grooms' gowns from Central Asia--Franks sat down with TIME correspondent Mark Thompson. Excerpts...