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...initiative honors Black men who have contributed to the community, including comedian Bill Cosby and Speaker of the California Legislature Willie Brown. Also honored was rap artist Ice Cube...

Author: By Margaret C. Boyer, | Title: Waters Speaks on Los Angeles | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...wanted to bring [Ice Cube] into the family and we want to support [the honored men] so they can do the right thing," Waters said...

Author: By Margaret C. Boyer, | Title: Waters Speaks on Los Angeles | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...writer, this complicated premise might have come off as writing-seminar pretense. But Peck has the talent and energy to flesh out his idea beautifully. Martin and John displays a keen eye for details and striking imagery: a drunken mother ensconced in a dark room "looked like an ice cube in rum;" on the open prairie "the sky gap(es) like an open mouth." Peck's language renders, "My face felt swollen and shapeless, like a moldy orange, as though grief had been shoved into my mouth like a handful of seeds, but I didn't know what...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Brutal Facts, Beautiful Fiction | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

...WHITE ARKANSAS FIREMEN (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) accidentally come upon a treasure map. Its X marks a spot in a creepy, abandoned factory. As they root in the floorboards for gold, a gang of black drug dealers, whose leaders are played by rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube, turn up to use the place for a murder. Race, greed and venality on all sides soon lead to deadly conflict. There's something bracing about the utter amorality of TRESPASS. Director Walter Hill has something like a genius for staging and editing action in jolting bursts. The movie wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jan. 11, 1993 | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...MUSICIANS AT THEIR BEST USE THEIR ART TO create a hyperspace of rhythm and verbal bravado, where anarchy reigns at times and society's downtrodden rise up. Savvy listeners understand that rap is simply dramatic musical theater, not a call to violence. Unfortunately, after rapper Ice Cube's concert in Seattle, hundreds of fans ignored the difference. During the concert the fire- breathing Cube whipped up the audience with raps describing racism, police violence and gunplay. As the show ended and the crowd of 1,400 streamed into the street, isolated fistfighting erupted into a general melee. At least five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trigger Happy | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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