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Spike Lee is better at setting agendas than he is at making movies. The laudable intention behind Crooklyn is, he says, to move beyond "the hip-hop, drug, gangsta-rap, urban-inner-city movies," which he claims constitute "a rut" into which black filmmakers have fallen. He has a point, though some of his competitors' work (for example, The Inkwell) has shown more range than he cares to admit. What he does not have here is a movie that attractively accomplishes his goal...
...Edgar Jr., who acquired the nickname "Efer" -- he even named a company Efer Productions -- came back to New York long enough to graduate from the Collegiate School, a tony preparatory institution, but rather than going on to college, he decided to become a producer on his own. "I've fallen in love with producing and plan to make it my life's work," he announced while still a senior at Collegiate. During the 1970s and early '80s, he produced movies (The Blockhouse, The Border) and plays (Ladies of the Alamo). Some shows featured such stars as Peter Sellers and Jack...
...clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
Although both teams have fallen off slightly compared to the rest of the nation, Saturday's rivarly should have all spirit of the older matches...
Even as Mandela voted last week and dutifully smiled in all directions for the photographers, his mind seemed both on the past and on the future; he thought back to his fallen comrades who did not live to share his victory and ahead to how he would contrive to forge one nation out of a divided land. His % moment of triumph gratifies him but comes with unsought consequences. While in jail, Mandela was surrounded by armed guards who never took their eyes off him. Now, wherever Mandela goes he is surrounded by armed guards who never take their eyes...