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...there must have been astonished cheers. Hayes had become the first African American to win a music Oscar (or, indeed, an Oscar in any category except for acting). But that belated recognition was less a harbinger of enlightenment than a blip on the rainbow radar. No black musician would cop another Oscar until 1985, when Prince was honored for the score of Purple Rain...
That's the type of movie that I grew up with. I wanted to weave a retro vibe into this movie, from the songs on the sound track to the synthesizer-heavy score. We looked to movies like Beverly Hills Cop and 48 Hours and even The Warriors for inspiration...
...police are stumped until the hero, a maverick cop too busy with original thoughts to iron his clothes, tricks the perpetrator into a tearful confession. As the credits on the TV cop drama roll, three real-life constables, busy devouring the detective series along with their cheese-and-pickle sandwiches in the station canteen, discuss the denouement. Real policing isn't like that, they say. It's messier - and more dramatic. Their boss, Hackney Borough Commander Steve Dann, agrees. That's why he "can't bear to watch police shows," he says. "They drive...
...detrimental to some of our responses when we work within these portfolios," says Dann. "Terrorists are actually engaged in serious criminality as well. So there is that crossover that takes place and there's often debate around which unit is responsible." It's also hard to set priorities. Former cop Paddick observes: "The police need to remain focused on what they're supposed to be there for, which is about making London safer...
...Generation Kill (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), which combines bone-rattling action, lacerating drama and comedy as dark and dirty as a nighttime sandstorm. Produced and co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns, who took a similar approach to America's urban ills in the brilliant HBO cop drama The Wire, Kill is no fictional critique. It's based on the book by embedded journalist Evan Wright, and the adaptation is faithful to his book down to the precise dialogue...