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...works. The combined budgets for four Ice Cube--produced movies--Friday (1995), its sequel Next Friday (2000) and this year's All About the Benjamins and Barbershop (which Cube Vision co-produced)--were about $40 million. The combined take in North America was $185 million. Barbershop, a PG-13 celebration of community, has earned nearly $75 million on a $12 million investment. This week Cube launches the third in his R-rated Friday series, Friday After Next. And you can bet that it will end up where the others did: in the black...
...Even government officials are surprisingly engaging. Far from being nasty to journalists from the U.S., for example, Ministry of Information officials can be as cordial as if America and Iraq were allies rather than enemies. During a half-hour trim at a common barbershop, I received smiles and handshakes and nary a complaint about U.S. policies...
...probably wouldn't say this in front of white folks," says CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER, as the codgerly Eddie in Barbershop, "but Rosa Parks didn't do nothing but sit her a__ down." Turns out he probably shouldn't have said it in front of certain black folks either. Al Sharpton and associates of Parks' have taken offense. The movie, which has been selling more tickets in America than any other film, also has Eddie slagging black activists like Jesse Jackson. Every other character in the room either objects or laughs it off--the remarks are just the cranky opinions...
What seems to have made Dontee Stokes snap was the news reports. Stokes, 26, was a doting father and an employee in good standing at Superman's Barbershop in Baltimore, Md. The TV runs constantly at Superman's, and Stokes was clearly troubled about the Roman Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandals. "He made comments that the priests should be punished," says Superman's co-owner Damon Fisher. "We were watching last week, and he said, 'It's not fair.'" Last Monday Stokes drove to the home of the Rev. Maurice Blackwell, who had baptized him, and--after reportedly requesting...
...artists. They are all veterans of the larger summer program which, with the supervision of professional artists, produces colorful and sometimes stunning public art—the jazz-inspired panels on the decaying doorway of the “Blue Store” in Dudley Square and a sepia barbershop scene in Roslindale, among many others, often painted over grafittied or otherwise run-down walls...