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...convention will be labor lawyer James P. Hoffa, 50, son of the legendary Teamster leader who disappeared in 1975, eight years after he went to jail for jury tampering. A federal judge barred Hoffa last month from running for office because he has held a job "in the craft" for only half of the required two years. Even so, Hoffa aims to line up enough delegate votes to amend the union's constitution to allow him to seek the presidency. Meanwhile, jackets emblazoned with the phrase FRIENDS OF HOFFA, the slogan used by his father, have begun spreading across...
John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood is another slice of fictionalized autobiography: a life story that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history...
Rich is the youngest of the new generation of black directors who, inspired by Spike Lee's in-your-face style of moviemaking, are turning out impassioned films about life on today's mean streets. Belying their age, most of these filmmakers have devoted years to developing their craft. Rich started reading how-to books on film when he was 10. "I didn't know what a right angle was, what a barnyard door was, but they had pictures, and I'd read something once, twice, three times, until I understood it," he recalls...
EXPLORATIONS II: THE NEW FURNITURE: American Craft Museum, New York City. Sixty fanciful and inventive works by 11 contemporary American artists. Through...
...Madonna has many of the classic characteristics of both the responsible, rule-oriented eldest daughter and the mediator-rebel middle child. She has the looks and name of her late mother, who died of cancer when Madonna was only five. She has now learned the craft of spinning autocinematic tapestries out of the yarn of her private anguish. Her mother's death left her to cope with a father, two older brothers and a stepmother ruling over her, and ample chores helping to raise her five younger siblings. She grew up with considerable maternal responsibility but little actual power...