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...Vantage Point is a wan title for such a bustling movie. (Since it's William Hurt in the terrorists' gun sights, it could be called Kill Bill.) But if it hints at the title of a famous 1970 car chase movie, Vanishing Point, that makes sense, since the new film argues that terrorists can be tracked down not by super-sleuthing or political back-channeling, but because of the fanatically assured driving skills of a lone government agent. The film also has echoes of a few other cluttered frescoes that play out in a limited time-frame: Vantage Point, reduced...
...gangsta-isms that anyone with a copy of the film “Boyz n the Hood” could have easily conjured. Each track vaguely covers all of the following topics: selling crack, making money, snorting coke, getting hoes, and of course, ballin’ in a fly car. The worst part is that Jones doesn’t even take the time to represent these topics in different ways. He uses a variation of the phrase “fast cars, fast money, and fly bitches” in the tracks “Lifestyle...
...Instead of his usual display of egotism, Kanye is barely onscreen at all. The video opens with a Mustang parking in the middle of the desert at dusk. As the red brake lights turn off, the song breaks into its titular refrain and Playboy model Rita G exits the car dressed in fur and large black sunglasses. She promptly strips down to her expensive lingerie, then lights her clothes on fire. With flames now at her back and Kanye belting his rap, Rita G glides back toward the car. With her four-inch heels, push-up bra, and the camera...
...took up arms and began marching south, failed to attract much attention. And this despite the fact that the rebels routed the handful of government forces they encountered, only to be stopped by French troops with air support. France, the former colonial power, keeps several hundred soldiers in the CAR, and has long played a kingmaking role in Bangui despite over 40 years of independence...
...Where the residents of Sam Ouandja were fortunate is that the refugees in their midst came from Darfur, Africa's most publicized conflict. Hundreds of thousand others in the CAR have been forced to abandon their homes by a combination of local rebels, government forces and bandits, but receive far less attention. And few in the town have many illusions about how much help they'll get if or when their Darfuri visitors feel it is safe to return home...