Word: dudeness
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...Night Live, will fit into the serious plot. 48 Hours is obviously not Animal House. But then again, Eddie Murphy is not Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy is first and foremost a character actor; his funniest skits on the TV show are when he becomes Buckwheat, or a stereotyped bad dude. In 48 Hours, he checks the manta of Saturday Night Live and straightforwardly portrays a cool guy with a good sense of humor. He injects a gritty comic relief without destroying all the tension built up by the scenes of violence and urban realism...
...production of Mack & Mabel. Writer Larry King, who worked, and occasionally collided, with Tune during rehearsals of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, is not even sure about the first half. "Man, I don't know!" he writes in his book The Whorehouse Papers. "I think that dude grew up on a different planet." Tune, 43, does not smoke or drink, and his West Side Manhattan apartment is even sparer than he is. Almost all the interior walls have been knocked down, and the only furniture is a bed. When guests drop by, they may sit on nine...
...glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...
...reaching the dispiriting conclusion that this "was the prime of my life, and it wasn't so great." Then he went to a California spa and "experienced a natural high for the first time in my life." So, with his wife Enid, he bought an old dude ranch, spent $6.8 million converting it, and now says, "It's a whole new life...
...summer, the Home Ranch, north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., is a modestly successful dude ranch, luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with live horseflesh and barbecued beef. When the snows come, the ranch, like scores of summer inns and resorts from the California Sierra to Massachusetts, becomes a cross-country skiing resort. The demand for cross-country accommodations-and the carefully prepared trails through snowy woods, mountains and meadows they offer-has risen dramatically...