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Article: SUMMER MOVIES - ANOTHER SEASON OF SOFT FARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1987
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Since "Ishtar" was featured in last year's summer preview,
last year's fall preview and last year's Christmas preview, we
decided to let it open before we ran this year's summer preview.
As usual, summer at the movies is filled with sequels,
re-makes and imitations of past successes.
Bond is back with Timothy Dalton as 007 in "The Living
Daylights" (July 31), yet another episode in the life of Ian
Fleming's master spy. Roger Moore successfully succeeded Sean
Connery and we'll see if Dalton can wring a few sequels out of the
rather tired secret agent.
Eddie Murphy is back as Axel in "Beverly Hills Cop II" (which
opened yesterday), costarring Judge Reinhold and John Ashton, ...