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...daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this be an Oscar contender? I'm not a betting man. --Nicolas...
MUSIC Jim Crow Concert Hall...
...ship operas dominating commercial cinema, the visionaries are in retreat. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) have renounced the form. That leaves the creation of dank, luscious worlds within worlds to Alex Proyas. And he'll do fine. The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director of The Crow has a chilling new fever dream called Dark City--a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching...
First, although there is much to celebrate in the decline of Jim Crow Racism, our institutions and culture still bear a deeply disfiguring scar best described as Laissez-Faire Racism. Prior to World War II most white Americans accepted Jim Crow Racism. They supported segregated schools and housing, endorsed clear preferences for whites over blacks in access to employment, and flatly rejected the idea of racially mixed marriages. All of this rested upon the belief that African-Americans were inherently inferior. Today these views stand in disrepute. Most white Americans now say that we should be an integrated...
...down to the deal brokered by Russia Wednesday ? and don?t think Moscow isn?t going to crow about it. ?Without any use of violence, any use of weapons, without a show of force, it was achieved through diplomatic means,? said Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov after the emergency middle-of-the-night meeting between permanent Security Council members in Geneva...