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...deemed bad (inferior, dangerous) by being the opposite of whites. African Americans cannot hide their color the way whites can hide their feelings about color. The only ways they can conceal themselves are to "pass" or disappear into white culture (this is a major theme of early African-American fiction), or to develop secret forms of knowledge or communication, as slaves once did. In the opening scene of Spike Lee's movie Clockers, street kids deliberately are shown to speak unintelligibly, as if to say, "This is not your world...
Last year his turn as Vincent Vega, the menacing, ingratiating hit man in Pulp Fiction--linguistic philosopher, dancing man, heroin addict--earned him an Academy Award nomination. And the picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will...
...some job offers," even if they "weren't particularly great ones." He cheerfully admits he was no one's first choice for Get Shorty and that when the script was submitted to him, "it didn't push me over the edge." He changed his mind after talking with Pulp Fiction's writer-director, Quentin Tarantino, who has become his unofficial adviser. "He said, 'Look man, what's going on here? This is the one you say yes to.'" This he finally did after insisting that much of Leonard's dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script...
MICHAEL CRICHTON BRINGS EVERYTHING together: science fiction, detail, cutting-edge technology and tremendous imagination. Time did an excellent job of presenting the literary qualities that make his books so enjoyable. But I am disappointed that Sphere was not mentioned. It packs in all that I enjoy, and in my opinion it is his best work. MATTHEW SKILLING Macon, Georgia aol: Vince12...
...remote, isolated South American location. Shortly after their arrival, they encounter, to their amazement, living dinosaurs. The explorers are separated, and after several harrowing incidents just barely manage to escape, leaving the prehistoric beasts behind. Jurassic Park? No. It is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 science-fiction classic The Lost World--coincidentally the title of Crichton's Jurassic Park sequel. While Crichton is a master of weaving the latest technology into his tales, he has no problem reaching into the past for inspiration. STEVEN T. DOYLE Zionsville, Indiana Via E-mail...