Word: cops
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...again our beloved news media attacks all that is good and wholesome. I wasn't one bit surprised at your hostile questioning of Dr. Laura. After serving for 18 months in Vietnam and seeing how the news media trashed us service personnel, then 15 years as a big-city cop, witnessing firsthand the news media onslaught of anti-cop writings, then now as a minister seeing how the news media loves to attack biblical Christianity, is it any wonder that I have so much resentment towards the news media...
SONG: Working on the Highway ALBUM: Born in the USA LYRIC: "We lit out down to Florida we got along all right/One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white" SLANT: Anti-cop...
SONG: Johnny 99 ALBUM: Nebraska LYRIC: "Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top/When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind/ Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99" SLANT: Pro-cop...
...Shaft, played by Samuel L. Jackson, is different from the old one, portrayed in the '70s by Richard Roundtree, in two significant ways. He is no longer a private eye--if you can believe it, he's now a New York City cop--and though plenty of foxy chicks sashay across his eyeline, his interest is mainly in chatting them up, not in bedding them down...
Wright's a wonder, playing a role that was--deservedly--built up during production. But that leaves a lot of other actors--among them Vanessa Williams, Toni Collette and Roundtree himself (as Shaft's beamish uncle)--shortchanged. It also leaves Jackson to play yet another cop rebelliously disgusted with the system and Singleton with yet another urban action piece, well enough made but not essentially different from a hundred other movies just like...