Film business pros doing the forensics on this past long Fourth of July holiday weekend might have come up with these learnings:
> David Spade was way off the mark in 1995 with that hurful "falling star" zinger on SNL aimed at Eddie Murphy. Spade wasn't wrong -- you do gotta break some eggs to make an omelet. But that star never fell. Twenty-nine years later -- and 40 years after the first Beverly Hills Cop movie debuted -- the surprisingly clever fourth iteration of Murphy's signature film franchise on Netflix proved once again he's one of the most talented, versatile and enduring comedic actors of his generation.
