Word: baldwinism
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...Which side are you on?" writer Budd Schulberg asked his friend, the writer James Baldwin, 30 years ago. Some black leaders, he noted, specifically Elijah Muhammad, then leader of the Nation of Islam, thought it was "too late for American whites." So where did Baldwin, a "celebrated Negro spokesman," stand? "On Elijah Muhammad's side or what you call my sloppy liberal -- interracial side...
...question put to Baldwin is, of course, today being put to African- American political and religious leaders, writers and columnists, college instructors and rap artists, and many others who routinely speak before the public. A New York Times columnist has said he's prepared to go to "war," to call all African-American intellectuals on the carpet to prove they are not anti-Semites. And many of us are appalled because most of us, as Baldwin said then, have never been "even vaguely tempted" by Muhammad's racist theories...
starring Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin...
...film stars Alec Baldwin as Doc McCoy, a seasoned hitman, and Kim Basinger as wife and partner-in-crime, Carol. We meet the duo coolly clad with dark shades, shooting targets in the desert, cavalierly zipping away in their white convertible to take on a new contract. The job is the get a convict out of prison and fly him back to Mexico. Doc is betrayed by Rudy (Michael Madsen), who leaves him stranded after the police are called on to the scene. Carol seeks the help of Benyon (James Woods),and offers Doc's services in return...
...Baldwin believably plays the assassin and Basinger takes the edge off the blonde ditz that Carol could have become. They are the two serious characters in a sea of overdramatized and not-so-sauve villians. They work well together in the action scenes that require shooting and keeping track of the money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland...