Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie that correctly balanced cheekiness and car chases. As it happened, that was Beverly Hills Cop. Ever since, the comedian has been a loose cannon, rolling aimlessly around on ships variously listing and listless. Beverly Hills Cop II, Murphy's first reprise of Axel Foley, the street-smart Detroit plainclothesman set down in Rodeo Drive and environs, was frantic and noisy. Beverly Hills Cop III is possibly a little less frazzling, but it's also a movie that's just going through the motions, without comic conviction, surprises or suspense. Hey, it's Eddie in his best part, the studio...
...sunlit office a few blocks from the White House and calmly defended him once again. The former chief of staff to the Governor of Arkansas has gone through a transformation since the campaign. Gone are the sweatshirt and slacks. The new Wright can afford an expensive haircut and smart, stylish dresses. Still the same, however, is her fierce loyalty to her old boss. "For 10 years," she says, with a flinty, blue-eyed gaze, "I doubt Bill Clinton was ever gone 15 minutes without me knowing where...
...date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson as a Bible-spouting sociopath, Tarantino makes a smart, fatal movie. It's Die Hard with a brain...
...what Maher does on Politically Incorrect, his Comedy Central show that features the most eclectic political round tables on TV. Maher has mediated between Harvey Fierstein and ex-Mayor of Washington Marion Barry; brought Martin Short together with Jimmy Breslin; made Tom Hayden lighten up and Corbin Bernsen look smart. All without causing the viewer to feel like a sleaze for watching...
Some of these projects will surely end up in development hell (or at least development limbo). Others will be made only to receive the who-cares / reception that greeted The Gong Show Movie, The Nude Bomb (from Get Smart), Boris and Natasha (from Rocky and his Friends), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and this year's Car 54, Where Are You? But enough of these tele-visions will emulate the smash status of last year's The Fugitive or at least achieve the same modest earnings as The Beverly Hillbillies to give Hollywood what it wants most: a solid...