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Everyone who knew him growing up agrees that Benjamin Goldstein -- Benjy, as they called him -- was a religious boy. In Bensonhurst, his middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, the piety of his Orthodox Jewish family set them apart from more secular Jewish neighbors. Though his father worked for the New York City Board of Education, the young Goldstein, with his side curls and yarmulke, attended school at a yeshiva. His faith seemed to draw him apart from others into an otherworldly solitude. If there was a tongue of flame in his heart, so much as a flicker of anything like bloodlust...
...Angie" instead works quietly, it is a character-driven movie in which people's conversations are more important than frenzied action. And here director Martha Coolidge makes an intelligent move. She leaves the film to its star, Geena Davis. As Angie Scacciapensieri, an Italian Bensonhurst woman who, after finding herself pregnant, chooses to be an unwed mother, Davis shines...
Sometimes, Sharpton manages to find what are indeed racially motivated hate crimes, like the infamous 1991 Bensonhurst case, when a Black teenager was brutally beaten to death by a gang of white men. Just as often, though, Sharpton makes race an issue and inflames tensions without cause...
...Bensonhurst march, Sharpton wasprotesting the sentencing of a group of whiteteenagers accused of killing Black teenager YusufHawkins. Only one of the accused men was convictedof murder, the others received lighter sentences...
...Crowe's movie are nubile twentysomethings Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon. The substance revolves around the relationship between these central players. Dillon sings in a band and Fonda runs a cafe that serves as the pack's home base and a focal point for the film, a la the Bensonhurst coffee shop in "Jungle Fever." "Singles" is an intelligent film that delivers an apolitical portrayal of contemporary urbanities. It does little by way of metaphysical beef that we might digest, but it does resolve that handsome, white, comfortable, post-college Seattlites can cultivate healthy heterosexual friendships both with and without...