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Murphy is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie...
...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 is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator, who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances...
...candidates. Instead, I saw Dole's 15% tax-cut labeled as "a turkey," and his candidacy declared DOA a week before the first votes were counted. Perhaps a more accurate cover would have been a single image of Clinton with the headline OUR CHOICE. TIMOTHY L. ROPER Bethesda, Maryland
...would like her [Diana] to disappear because I think she is a liability. However, as she is the mother of the future King, I suppose they will have to find a minimal--I hope--role for her. She is disastrous in every way." HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, retired professor of history, Oxford University...
...sleep and send him off to a therapist periodically. "The ones where the kids have broken bones are easier," he says. In those cases, Davis has little difficulty deciding that the children would be better off in the custody of strangers. But what to make of a case like Roper's? Her seven-year-old son is attending school regularly. Her two-year-old daughter seemed content as she perched on the Naugahyde couch, watching cartoons. And Roper appeared genuinely distraught at the prospect of losing her kids. But what about the drug test? And the presence...