Word: mayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protect a hostage-for-drugs operation. The report states that Monzer al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, was permitted to ship drugs through a "protected" route at Frankfurt in exchange for promises to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The subpoenas filed by Pan Am suggest that the CIA may even have a videotape of the bomb-laden suitcase being loaded in Frankfurt. The CIA and British authorities categorically deny these allegations...
...star gets what may be his best laugh in Harlem Nights before he appears. The moment occurs when Eddie Murphy's name flashes in the credits for the fifth time. This may represent the new Hollywood record for authorial egotism. It is, in any case, three more mentions than Woody Allen requires to state his creative credentials for a truly imaginative comedy and two more than Orson Welles took for his film directorial debut, which was -- let's see, oh, yes -- Citizen Kane...
...Murphy be kidding? One would certainly like to think so. But the film that follows is so self-destructively primitive in tone and development that it quickly dismisses the possibility that its superstar proprietor may retain any capacity for self-satire. Or, for that matter, self-control or self- criticism...
...may be that Murphy's worst idea is his own character. His box-office power having brought Paramount groveling to its knees, offering him any indulgence he wants, Murphy has come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny...
...publicity with a conciliation offensive. He met with South African officials, released white doves at rallies to symbolize peace and reassured the country that SWAPO "has no intention of imposing our views on others." Now that the elections have bound SWAPO to a broad-based assembly, those white doves may keep flying...