Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lying facedown in the dirt -- the place where young men netted by the Los Angeles police department's vaunted antigang sweeps frequently wind up -- Javier Gonzalez, 18, watched in terror as an officer slammed Lewayne Williamson's head into the ground. "The cop asked if he was in a gang. Lewayne said no and was hit," Gonzalez recalls. "He said no again and was hit again. By the time they got to me, five or six people had already been whacked." Fearful of being beaten, Gonzalez blurted yes when asked if he was a gang member. Over the next...
...Baerwald has a knack for eccentric rhythms (rock-based, with sudden jazzy inflections) and a knowing turn of phrase. (Examples: "I got stopped by a cop for oblivious driving"; "Instead of Nero/ We got Madonna/ She's fiddling with herself.") The son of a UCLA political science professor, Baerwald was born in Ohio and at the age of five trailed his father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant...
Diehard 2 picks up one year after the end of the original movie. Bruce Willis again slips effortlessly into the guns-and-guts tradition as John McLane, an off-duty Los Angeles cop (formerly from New York) who just wants to be left alone with his family...
...recent interview,Days of Thunder producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer(Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Top Gun) swore that they had balked at the prospect of making a sequel to their fabulously successful Top Gun. Well, they lied...
...yacht. The accident introduces him to a much divorced lady with money, looks and a conniving mind. Before Winnie's head clears, he is being set up for a scam that involves betrayal and homicide. In The Blue Knight and The Choirboys, Wambaugh demonstrated a Panasonic ear for cop patois. In his latest work, the tension sometimes sags, but the dialogue lingers in the ear: "An unsolved murder is like . . . an insult to me personally, not jist to the corpse...