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Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) is brutal, cynical, corrupt and bad tempered. He is also funny and, when the mood is on him, strangely seductive. You know better than to root for him, but with Washington's hot-wired performance, it is impossible to root against...
...TIME: What's the best film you've seen in the last year? Koizumi: The Hurricane. Denzel Washington. And The Legend of Bagger Vance. Matt Damon...
...Mavericks in the second round of the 1999 draft, his team?the army-run August 1 Rockets? had refused to let him go. Only this year, in the wake of the Sydney debacle, did the dutiful soldier get his chance. "This is a very, very long process," says Michael Denzel, vice president of NBA Asia. "Frankly, we're just relieved that Wang got to Dallas and had an opportunity to play...
...issue is discussed and debated, but the brother still gets to make a booty call. Hollywood movies, all too often, go to extremes on the subject of interracial sex: either they make too big a deal of it, or they avoid it altogether. In "The Pelican Brief," for example, Denzel Washington didn't so much as get a kiss from Julia Roberts. The fact that "Save the Last Dance" opened at No. 1 at the box office suggests that a significant portion of the American public isn't as skittish on the subject as Hollywood may think...
Which brings us to another Hollywood favorite, the Bigot with a Heart of Gold. In Remember the Titans (a formulaic film that soars on the strength of its performances) Will Patton plays a white football coach who at first resists integration, and then befriends head coach Denzel Washington. And in Men of Honor (another formulaic film enjoyable for its performances) Robert De Niro plays a BHG who at first tries to run Cuba Gooding Jr. out of the Navy diver program, and then champions his cause. Gooding's character is a real person. De Niro's is a fictional composite...