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It's
SHOWTIME!
Entertainment Weekly Hypes
the New Shatner Film
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| William
Shatner (center) advises Eddie Murphy (left) and Robert De
Niro (right) how to be a proper TV cop in SHOWTIME,
premiering March 15, 2002. (©2002 Warner Bros.) |
Hollywood,
CA
- In
Entertainment Weekly's
[web
site >] SPRING
MOVIE PREVIEW (Feb. 15 cover), the upcoming William Shatner-Robert
De Niro-Eddie Murphy flick, SHOWTIME, gets a 9 out of a
possible 10 on the Buzz-o-Meter.
Here's
what the magazine had to say about the
film:
SHOWTIME
Starring: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, William
Shatner
Written by: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Keith Sharon
Directed by: Tom Dey
Buzz-o-Meter: 9/10
Sometimes
the hard stuff comes easy and the easy stuff comes hard. Just
look at the latest comedy from Shanghai Noon's Dey. The
director had little difficulty convincing box office titans De
Niro and Murphy to costar as cops who are cast in a reality TV
show. But finding the right woman to play their producer? "I
wasn't the first choice," says Russo. "SHOWTIME
is in a lot of ways a goof on Lethal Weapon and I think
people had concerns that because I was in Lethal that I
wasn't right. And De Niro went to bat for me." So where does
Shatner fit in? "They need to be instructed on how to be
a cop for television, so they hire this guy Shatner," says
the actor. "As the guy who played T.J. Hooker, I teach them
how to be flashy." Ah, T.J. – seems like he'll never
get through with schooling those new recruits.
BOTTOM
LINE: Murphy and De Niro can be hilarious, but audiences may
find a reality-show spoof about as fresh as a Yakov Smirnoff zinger.
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