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...Boyz 'N the Hood...
...winter is now for kids who like to watch TV in a movie theater, summer is not necessarily for grownups. Social issues, which rarely have an exalted place in Hollywood, shrivel in the summer. Last summer's "serious" hit, Boyz N the Hood, made a lot of money on a weenie budget but, judging from recent events, didn't have much impact on the residents of South Central Los Angeles, where the film was set and shot. Says Disney's movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg: "This is a time of trouble and concern, yet I am also optimistic. Hollywood can make...
America makes itself insane with the envies and needs that its self-images create. To have and have not is relative. Last year's movie Boyz N the Hood was set in the same South Central Los Angeles that was burning in last week's riots. The characters, the boyz, were supposed to represent the dead-end hopelessness of black ghetto males. And they did. They also lived in relatively pleasant homes and drove customized cars and watched enormous color TV sets in a life-style that most of the residents of Kinshasa or Cairo would consider upper-middle class...
...succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious no-hoper, fresh out of prison and fated to return...
Deep Cover stars Larry Fishburne of Boyz N The Hood fame as John Stevens, a cop who is trying to escape his past as the son of a junkie. He accepts an undercover assignment as drug dealer to infiltrate a powerful narcotics ring with ties to the U.S. government...