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...baseball season with the potential of a Canadian sunset...
...clichés describe a small part of L.A., but they are apt enough. The place does have eccentric glamour. The enormous HOLLYWOOD sign stuck on one of the Santa Monica Mountains is odd and funny. "Colonics," a regimen of recreational-cum-therapeutic enemas, is popular among regular people. On Sunset Boulevard nothing seems remarkable about the Professional Waiters School, and on Gloaming Drive in Beverly Hills, the only pedestrians are tanned joggers and dark-skinned servants. Los Angeles has more registered poodles (16,732) than any other city, and plenty of them are dyed the colors of jelly beans...
Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with. It takes nothing away from Aykroyd's perfect prissiness as Winthorpe, or from Bellamy and Ameche, having the time of their sunset years playing the Dukes, to say this. But Murphy, using his Tyrone Green character from Saturday Night Live as a sketch for a full-scale portrait, demonstrates the powers of invention that signal the arrival of a major comic actor, and possibly a great star. He makes Trading Places something more than a good-hearted comedy. He turns it into an event...
When Richard Gere, resplendent in his Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...which together with Warner commands 45% of the market, closed down a record-and tape-manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Ind., and has laid off some 1,500 employees. Says Group President Walter Yetnikoff: "It used to be that if any artist said, 'I want a billboard on Sunset Strip,' we'd say, Fine.' But not any more...