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6P THE ODESSA AMERICAN Sunday, Jan. 13, 1985 Youll Never Really Know How effective A Cla.ttified Ii Until Vow Use One Yourself. Cop role restrains Ed dievMjurphy You're Invited to Ely JIM SANDERSON plete character a nd, in order to move the plot, Murphy must deliver some dramatic and expository Partially because director Martin Brest cannot find anything amusing to put in these scenes, Murphy is dull in them. In addition, Brest and writer Daniel Petrie want the film to be an action film as well as a comedy. Brest, though, just doesn't film action very well.

He creates no brisk pace or tense Brest has the standard car crashing at the beginning of the film and the bloody shoot-out at the end. The villainous driver of a runaway semi who smiles as he crushes cars brings some humor to the car crashing. But in a jarring murder and in the closing scenes, Brest mixes violence and comedy, shattering the tone of the film. With blood spurting from villains and bullets flying, Taggert and Rosewood go through a comic routine. The two characters seem impervious to the bullets, like they were only props, and thus destroy tension.

And the dying villains and gushing blood destroy Rheinhold's and Ashton's repartee. The result is that the film is neither a comedy nor a detective film. It has no consistent tone. It has no movement. And Murphy, like other "hot" comedians, must work out their major problem with films: the necessary restraint of plot and character.

In Beverly Hills Cop he is too restrained. In Beverly Hills Cop, tough Detroit detective Axel Foley takes a vacation to Beverly Hills to find the murderer of a friend. The cultural clash between a street-wise, inner city cop with questionable means and the suburban-wise Beverly Hills cops, who look like lawyers and who call culprits "sir" while reading them their rights, promises conflict and interest in Beverly Hills Cop. In his first scene as Foley, Eddie Murphy poses as a fast talking con man selling black market cigarettes to two thugs. "This brand is a popular brand with the children," he says.

Foley, like Murphy's other screen characters, is an extension of the persona that he developed on Saturday Nfight Live a cocky black man trying to make it out of the ghetto with nothing but bluff and charm. He uses his strut, cocked head, ingratiating smile and rhythmic speech to convince rather than any logic or substance and to hide outlandish self -promotion. In fact, Murphy is one of those performers for whom plot and character exist only as a thin veneer for persona. So the foul-mouthed, jive-talking Murphy character is a perfect foil for the polished, computer-equipped, ultra white Beverly Hills cops (Foley tries to teach a black Yuppie cop how to talk black). When he turns on his SNL routine to con his way into a swank hotel or luncheon club, or out of the police headquarters, Murphy is funny.

He sparkles with just a glance an a smile at two obviously rich, chicly dreitsed punksters walking down Rodeo Drive. And Murphy reveals a properly superior at titude when he walks into an "art" gallery with the most decadent type of art and tries to decipher and question the thickly accented and aloof clerk, "Serge," Foley calls him, short for Sergio. In a more subtle manner, Judge Rheinhold as Detective Billy Rosewood and John Ashton as Sgt. Taggert arc funny as they try in their innocent manner to adapt to Foley. Dressed well, courteous, gangly Rheinhold's Rosewood has the confidence but none of the bluff to match Foley's detective work.

Rhinehold can't kcsep pace with Murphy but makes a watchablc straight man. But Murphy's schtick or scenes with Ashton or Rheinhold can't carry the film and don't deliver the pi romise of its idea. Foley's bits of onning do not make a com TRACTOR PULL January 20 2:00 5:00 pm Lubbock Municipal Coliseum Admission Charge CONTINENTAL SHOW January 20 1:00 5:00 pm Civic Center Exhibit Hall Admission Charge KHIVA SHRINE TEMPLE CIRCUS January 26-27 Lubbock Civic Center Admission Charge LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA February 1-2 8:15 pm John Farrer, Conductor Lubbock Civic Center Theatre Admission Charge Movie creates demand for Mumford T-shirts FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL THE LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, (806) 763-4666. said. "Beverly Hills Cop" has grossed more than $100 million at box offices since it was released just over five weeks ago.

As crowds streamed to see it, Mumford lost its anonymity. Mumford soldi all 500 T-shirts on hand in the first week, and has unfilled orders for 12 dozen more.The T-shirts, which sell for $10, come in only one color. sky blue with, burgundy letters. Lorraine Solomon hadn't been inside Mumford High since: since her 1957 graduation, but returned last week hoping to buy a shirt and surprise her te en-age children. 'My kids ca n't have one they don't go to Mumford, "she said.

Interested visitors are directed to turn to page 94 of Mm nf ord's 1961 yearbook to see the DETROIT (AP) Comedian Eddie Murphy sparked an international demand for 'Mumford Phys. Ed. Dept." T-shirts when he wore one through much of his movie, "Beverly Hills Cop." For the past week, officials of the aging, high school on Detroit's northwest side have been struggling to keep up With orders for the shirts from all over the jUnited States and a few foreign countries. I "I came came down to buy my T-shirt last Friday and stayed," said David L. Haron, a 1962 graduate of Samuel C.

Mumford High who put aside his regular law practice to help jsell shirts and represent the school in licensing negotiations. I "There's Mumford graduates coming out Jof the woodwork, but most of them aren't. -Most of them are Eddie Murphy fans," he senior portrait of Jerome Bruckheimer, a Mumford alumnus and one of the producers of "Beverly Hills Cop." Parts of the movie were filmed in Detroit. "Are you sure this is the same one? It looked different in the movie," said Marvin Bolton, Mumford class of 72. The question has come up before, said Queen Loundman, director of student activities the shirt Murphy wore was faded.

Haron has copyrighted the shirt design and handled negotiations with national distributors. Although he has only talked with a few companies, he said he has already has his first threat. "One of these places said that if we don't give them the contract, they'll go ahead on their own bootleg. That's why we're in a hurry to get this licensed, he said. Foreigner up to their old tricks Record Reviews By KEN TUCKER Knight-Ridder Newspapers I FOREIGNER, "Agent Provocateur" (Atlantic).

This 'English hard-rock band's previous album, "4," was a hap-l py surprise for the way the group I dropped its macho posturing and surrendered to terse rock-and-Jroll. On this one, they're up to their old tricks: thudding rockers and mawkish ballads. Two exceptions are "Tooth and Nail," a ferocious song with a guitar line that twists and turns in imagined agony, and "Reaction to Action," a loud, urgent squawk that beats posers ii i i i i MONDAY WEDNESDAY DT2404 ET1401 Prin of Accounting II PET 23 10 PET 2383 RTV2310 Read 1101-1103 7 9:50 RE 130 3 RE 2303 Socl301 Span 23 12 Drilling Methods Chemical Treating Announcing for RTV College Reading Real Estate Finance Property Management Sociology Second Yr Spanish II BA 2402 Math 1301 CIS 1400 CIS 1401 Elementary Math-Finance Prog in BASIC Language ET1402 ET1403 ET2400 EMT 2802 LATE REGISTRATION THROUCiH JAN. 25 Intro to Computer Info Sys Computer Operations CIS 1402 CIS 1403 COBOL Programming WEDNESDAY DM 1601-2605 Diesel Mechanics Electronic Drafting Engr2304 Engl 1312 7-9 Fr 1412 Govt 2302 MT 1602-2604 Math 1341 like Billy Squier at their own game. Engl 1311 Comp Rhetoric Engl 1312 Comp Lit (SciFi) D.C.

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