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State Representative since 1990.
Strong friend, support of
Governor George W. Bush.
B.S., United States Naval
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Nine years of service in the
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Metro
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Disclosing the ending would
take all the fun out of guessing it
seven minutes into the movie.
Metro is a two-hour cliche, and
viewers might suspect the film
makers have a rare, painful allergy
to original thought.
Examples: Roper’s initial reluc
tance to take McCall under his
wing turns into friendship and a
warm, fuzzy bonding experience.
His captain refuses to put him on
the murder case of his friend,
snarling at Roper that he is “too
close to the case.”
In fact, the whole movie plays
out like a Saturday Night Live par
ody of a typical action film.
But unlike Murphy’s past few
movies, however, Metro is delib
erately not funny. Murphy at
tempts a straight-ahead action
god posturing, which is pretty hi
larious in itself.
His performance is tepid and
unconvincing, although he was not
given much of a script. Maybe he
should stick to comedy. Of course,
that was what The Nutty Professor
was supposed to be, so maybe not.
The pleasantly vacant Ejogo
walks through her lines harmlessly
enough. And Rapaport (Zebra-
head, Beautiful Girls) makes the
most of his role.
But the real standout perfor-
Roper (Murphy) teaches McCall (Rapaport) how to handle hostage neji
ations as a San Francisico SWAT team officer in the new action flick Mf!:
mance is by Wincott. Wincott’s Ko
rda is chilling and even credible,
and he growls his part with clever
ness and something like originality.
But Wincott cannot save the
movie by himself. Screenwriter
Randy Feldman has crafted charac
ters so two-dimensional that they
degenerate into stereotypes. Ejo-
go’s Ronnie is a damsel in distress
who loves to cook (’cause she’s a
woman, see?), and the villain Korda
recites old Naples proverbs before
exacting revenge (’cause he’s Ital
ian, see?).
Both Feldman and director
Thomas Carter deserve scarlet let
ters for their none-too-subtle sex
ism. The only major female char
acter is Ronnie, who parades
front of the camera wearing
a bra.
Metro takes place in SanFrt
cisco, a setting Carter doesni
ploit nearly enough. Theoni
echo of the city is a cable-car
scene so ridiculous even Keai
Reeves would be ashamed toad
it, dude.
In short, it has nothing that li
not been done before. Metro is
sad example of filmmakers andai
tors who are simply going throus
the motions.
Eddie Murphy, thepaperssa
is on the road to a comebaci
But then, so were Vanilla Iceaai
Bob Dole.
Comedian
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Green likes to push people’s
buttons, and he is especially fond
of picking on people who look
uncomfortable. Green said when
he sees a girl giving her date the
“I-can’t-believe-you-brought-me-
here” look, he often singles them out
and makes them his next victims.
“I just want to make sure that
everyone is having a good time,”
he said.
Green has been spreading
good times and earning a living
performing his comedy act for
the past 12 years at clubs like All-
eycats in Dallas and Pat O’Brien’s
in New Orleans, La.
Green trained pianist Mike
Williams, who later went on to open
the national chain of piano bars
known as Jellyrolls.
During his time as a comedian,
Green has mastered his genre; mak
ing people laugh is not only how he
entertains, but it may be his own
form of art as well.
Unfortunately, Green’s career in
College Station may be ending
soon. His one-year contract with
J.D. Well’s will expire at the end of
February. Even though he has
brought in strong Tuesday-night
crowds throughout his stay, atten
dance lately has been declining.
Without any sort of Aggie sup
port in these last few weeks, Green
said, he will become another one of
those entertainers — and another
one of those artists — reservedt
bigger cities like Austin, wherein
currently plays fourshowsaweek
Pete’s Piano Bar.
“If College Station likes thissoit
of thing, now is the time theyned
to come support it,” Green saii
Once he is gone, he maynothavt
the opportunity to comebackofe
he said.
Green will be at J.D. Well’s del-
ling the ivories and funny bones
every TUesday at 9 p.m. until theeni
of February.
Green said he hopes to set
mobs of Aggies supporting hislasi
few shows in College Station. He
said he will do his best to keepiie
mobs laughing, because oneiear-
death experience in 12 yeairt
enough for him.
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