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Stickup 48 HRS. Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza...
...disparate elements that the film makers are trying to stick together for 48 Hrs. are a tough white cop with the soul of a beer barrel (Nick Nolte) and a jivey black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple...
Next week the autumn logjam will begin to break, as Hollywood releases the first of a promising mix of films. Three movies head the insiders' early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine...
...artillery had struck an Israeli armored personnel carrier on a hillside, and the vehicle in turn had fallen on top of two Israeli tanks, thereby trapping 14 Israeli soldiers in the wreckage and pinning them down under heavy fire. The Israelis called the ceasefire, which lasted for only 24 hrs., in order to extricate their men. After the resumption of fighting, there were clashes off and on between the Israelis and Syrian and Palestinian forces around the Beirut airport and in the hills east of the city. On Wednesday, a cloud of black smoke hung over West Beirut from...
...make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders and salesmen, James advised his clients to lay off the Disney stock. Wall Street reacted fast. The New York Stock Exchange delayed the opening of Disney stock by 2½ hrs. because of a rush to sell. By the end of the day the listing had dropped $2.50 a share, from $58.88. It closed the week...