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...State and the Secretary of Agriculture started lobbing grenades at each other over a proposal to sell grain to the Soviet Union. Others entered the argument. Voices rose, arms waved. Through it all, Ronald Reagan sat silently, apparently concentrating on picking the black licorice jelly beans from the crystal jar on the table in front of him. Occasionally, he would look up. Once, as he did so, he caught the eye of an aide sitting opposite him at the back of the room. The President winked. The tumult gradually subsided. When it was peaceful again, Reagan looked up, turned...
...should be no surprise to anyone that everything in this movie turns out okay--if it weren't going to, the advertising agency in charge of MGM's account wouldn't have been told to make Hines and Crystal look so happy. You see, they're waiting for the final contract drafts for Running Scared...
Unfortunately, Billy Crystal wasn't so lucky in Running Scared. The growth of stubble which, I assume, was supposed to make his character Detective Danny Costanzo more believable as a tough Chicago vice cop, only made me want to take a napkin and wipe it off like a two-year-old's chinfull of chocolate milk...
...plot of this Beverly Hills Cop meets The French Connection flick is basically pretty straight forward. Gregory Hines, last seen dancing his tootsies off in the utterly offensive White Knights, and Billy "Mahvelous" Crystal play two yukster detectives from inner city Chicago who spend their spare moments between making drug busts and nailing crime rings by delivering Lettermanesque monologues to each other, presumably to pass the time. Utterly realistic cops these guys aren't, but remember, this isn't Hill Street Blues, and going to the movies means suspending one's disbelief. If you keep that caveat in mind...
What we've got to remember is that the point here is definitely not the plot--after all who recalls exactly what Beverly Hills Cop was about. All that counts here is the exchanges between Hines and Crystal wonderfully egged along by some excellent dialogue provided by Gary DeVore and Jimmy Huston. Contemplating a potential chemical transaction somewhere on the south side of Chicago, Hughes and Costanzo wonder whether or not to intercede when a 450SEL pulls up alongside a tenement building. Costanzo rebuts Hughes' worries about violating the probable cause rule, by saying, "In this neighborhood, a Mercedes...