Word: brooklyn
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...take it and enjoy , it." Lawrence's just-say-ha attitude is the result of an upbringing that wasn't a lot of laughs. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, divorced his mother when he was eight. The family moved around a lot, with stops in Brooklyn, New York, and Landover, Maryland. "Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying," says Lawrence's sister (and personal assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh...
Does Bakersfield P.D. have a future? The show is probably too gentle and unassertive to inspire the sort of grass-roots campaign that saved or extended shows like Brooklyn Bridge and Cagney & Lacey. Levin thinks the subject matter makes it a tough sell. "Nobody wants to see ineffective cops," he theorizes. "In the days of Car 54, Where Are You? people didn't have to lock their doors or their car. Today there's violence and fear and crime everywhere, and nobody wants to see a cop who can't make a decision." Maybe not, but who says every show...
...Piano remedies that. It is set in New Zealand, funded by Francis Bouygues' Ciby 2000 (pronounced, in French, C.B. De Mille), scored by English composer Michael Nyman, and stars some unlikely actors: Georgia's Holly Hunter and Brooklyn's Harvey Keitel join New Zealand's Sam Neill. Campion has also honed her style beyond mannerism; now the desaturated colors and oblique angles bend to serve the story. And a plangent story it is, with a typical Campion heroine: the outsider woman, the renegade from convention, as viewed from a treetop, where only God dares judge...
Where he came from is a housing project in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where battles for drug turf were so regular that residents called it Gunsmoke City. Bowe was the 12th of 13 children raised by a single mother who worked the graveyard shift at a plastic-bottle factory and held weekend card games to earn money for a few extras. Even so, "we'd have to eat the same meals -- like beans and rice -- four times a week," says Bowe's brother Darryl Wright...
...spokesperson for the Brooklyn precincts ofthe New York City Police Department said yesterdaythe matter is under investigation and noinformation could be released at this time...