Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building--which also houses Three Aces Pizza, a cleaners and a barber shop--was purchased a little over a year ago by Harvard Real Estate (HRE). HRE manages the University's non-academic holdings...
After meshing amiably with Murphy in Coming to America (in which he played multiple roles, ranging from a grizzled barber-shop customer to a fiery evangelist), Hall seems poised for a movie breakthrough. In Harlem Nights, which Murphy wrote and directed, Hall is onscreen for only a few minutes, as a gangster who "hates Eddie's guts." He is currently talking with producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Beverly Hills Cop) about starring in an action-comedy, which would probably be shot next fall. "By then," Hall says, "either I'll have a grasp on what I'm doing...
...story is of a barbershop which doubles as a headquarters for playing the "numbers," an illegal lottery. Centering around the life of a barber, his wife--a social service worker, and a boy he takes on to help him in the shop, the film involves dealings with gangsters involved in the numbers game and a failed attempt to steal money from them and flee to Georgia...
...Stuy Barbershop never becomes very gripping, perhaps because the dialogue and acting is excessively forced. The editing at times is also unnaturally jarring, for no apparent reason. However, there are moments of pure Spike Lee: when the barber awakens to a pair of gangsters looming over him in an unnerving point of view or when a young boy is taught by his older friend how to swear with the correct hand gestures...
This account is disputed by Adjua Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis barber who acknowledges cooking dinner for Abernathy, King and his assistant, Bernard Lee, on the evening in question. She contends that Abernathy, having fallen unconscious while drinking, occupied her bedroom until about 3:45 a.m., when she and King put an ice pack on his neck to wake him. Said she: "If there was any sex going down in my bedroom, it was by Abernathy himself." The former Kentucky lawmaker, Georgia Powers of Louisville, was at the Lorraine Motel that night but declined to comment...