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...Shultz Doctrine." He supported the Administration's widely criticized decision to withdraw partly from the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice after the court ruled against U.S. support for the Nicaraguan contras. "The U.S. is supposed to be building up international law, not destroying it," says Mark Feldman, a Washington attorney and former staffer in the legal adviser's office...
...Dennis Feldman's script labors almost as hard to get Murphy to Tibet (where he must seek the abducted "Prince of Light") as it does to place him in conflict with Beelzebub's legions. But it makes little of the comic possibilities in the star's new screen situation. And Director Michael Ritchie, who can be a wonderfully cockeyed social commentator (Smile, The Survivors, Fletch), seems almost as lost as Murphy when he is back of the beyond. They are both men who need to plant their feet firmly in contemporary American reality if they are to deliver their punches...
...premise for The Golden Child, the first of what will be a long series of "Eddie Murphy Productions," is the year's silliest. In his contrived script, screenwriter Dennis Feldman puts Murphy's wisecracking persona up against a story that combines a sappy romance with the classic Spielberg formulas...
There are several good touches in Feldman's script--for instance, its ill-mannered version of the stereotypical Asian mentor and a particularly odd dream sequence--but all of these showcase Murphy's familiar comic talents. For his next outing, let's hope for a star vehicle that is a little bit more demanding to drive...
...stay. Good-quality players are available for $350 to $500, and the price of the discs has fallen from an average $20 to around $14. High-end enthusiasts are likely to be the last holdouts in a war that has already been lost. "CDs may not be perfect," says Feldman. "But they are the best thing to come along since Edison invented the phonograph...