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...family from the genocidal Khmer Rouge. Now, as he stalked furiously back and forth across the grimy patio behind a cramped bungalow in the Little Phnom Penh section of Long Beach, he saw a very different threat materializing -- within his own family. His 14-year-old son, gang-named Flipper, and another homeboy, Slicc, 18, were bragging to a stranger about a shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Killing Fields to Mean Streets | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Wesley Snipes (Flipper, the black architect): "I think it's about how color- conscious this society really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in The Jungle | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

This character has reason for her rancor. Her architect husband, Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), has wandered into the sexual curiosity of his Italian- American secretary, Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra). Their affair, which they confide to friends, is soon the talk -- the shout -- of their respective neighborhoods, Sugar Hill in Harlem and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. The animosities are mirrored in two subplots. Angie's sweet, nerdy friend Paulie (John Turturro) pursues a romance with a classy black woman (Tyra Ferrell). And Flipper's crackhead brother (Samuel L. Jackson) collides with his Bible- bred parents (Ossie Davis and Ruby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Protesters argue that dolphins should not be used by the military in the first place and claim that many are abused when the Navy teaches them to fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston: Flipper Fans Stop a Swap | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...opinion piece appearing on April 11, entitled "Flipper Joins the Navy," inadvertently contained wording from a short article in the April 9 issue of The New York Times without attribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APOLOGY | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

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