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...affair. The star seduces us, he disappoints us; after years of the same-old, we take him for granted; then he does something wonderful to win back our love. Eddie Murphy, from his explosion on Saturday Night Live in 1981 to his current turn in the cop drama Metro, has been a beguiling, exasperating beau. With his horse laugh and his wizardry at impressions, he rose to eminence as the little guy who can take charge. But he became addicted to adulation and lost the common touch. His appeal waned; the comeback attempts proved futile. Until, that is, last summer...
...evidence of Metro, maybe The Nutty Professor was less a trend than a fluke. This cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop, but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with...
MOVIES . . . METRO: "Eddie Murphy's new cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits '48 HRS.' and 'Beverly Hills Cop,' but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car full of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero?" Murphy...
...Michigan: A commuter airplane carrying 29 passengers and crew crashed in rural southern Michigan Thursday about 18 miles from Detroit Metro Airport. Delta ComAir Flight 3272 crashed and burned in Monroe County in an open field in cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated in Cincinnati...
...other additions, an oven will be installed behind the bar area where a pastry chef will work, and a metal grille door, styled after those in the Paris Metro, will be added to the entrance...