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In the pantheon of memorable buddy-cop movies of the 1980s, the undisputed champions are “48 Hours” (1982) and “Lethal Weapon” (1987) and I’ll add “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984) to the mix because after all, Axel Foley spent an awful lot of time with Billy and Taggart, right? I’d round out my Top 5 from the decade with “Stakeout” (1987) and the Chicago-set “Running Scared,” which was released 35 years ago this month and became a solid hit, with a gross of $38 million ($92 million in today’s dollars). Back in the mid-1980s, comedian Billy Crystal and actor-dancer Gregory Hines might not have been the first two names you’d think of to play streetwise plainclothes Chicago police detectives, but Crystal and Hines had terrific rhythm as Danny Costanzo and Ray Hughes, respectively, constantly exchanging snappy banter even as they exchanged gunfire numerous times with aspiring criminal kingpin Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits, usually sporting a st