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Born in Queens, N.Y., 50 grew up never knowing his father, while his mother, a drug dealer, was murdered when he was 8. By age 12 he had escaped his grandmother's supervision and was selling crack. "I wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient...
25TH HOUR. Spike Lee’s latest film isn’t much of a narrative departure from his previous efforts. Money and shattered dreams rule this story of drug dealer Monty Brogan’s (Edward Norton) last day of freedom before his seven-year jail sentence begins. The final act packs a phenomonal punch, but its dealer-with-a-heart-of-gold premise is predictable and derivative, typical of Lee’s long-time filmic obsession with the soft side of seemingly reprehensible humanity. 25th Hour screens...
25TH HOUR. Spike Lee’s latest film isn’t much of a narrative departure from his previous efforts. Money and shattered dreams rule this story of drug dealer Monty Brogan’s (Edward Norton) last day of freedom before his seven-year jail sentence begins. The final act packs a phenomonal punch, but its dealer-with-a-heart-of-gold premise is predictable and derivative, typical of Lee’s long-time filmic obsession with the soft side of seemingly reprehensible humanity. 25th Hour screens...
...teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing. He's romancing the wife of a jailed drug dealer. Then somebody brains him with a vase in his apartment. Ray won't say who did it, not even to Nerese Ammons, the black police detective, single mother and childhood acquaintance who wants to get to the bottom of the crime. The bottom is dark and deep...
25TH HOUR. Spike Lee’s latest film isn’t much of a narrative departure from his previous efforts. Money and shattered dreams rule this story of drug dealer Monty Brogan’s (Edward Norton) last day of freedom before his seven-year jail sentence begins. The final act packs a phenomonal punch, but its dealer-with-a-heart-of-gold premise is predictable and derivative, typical of Lee’s long-time filmic obsession with the soft side of seemingly reprehensible humanity. 25th Hour screens...