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...know the story. Tony (Brad Rouse) meets Maria (China Forbes), and it's love at first sight. But her brother, Bernardo (Dean Shapiro), is the leader of the Sharks, a Puerto Rican street gang, and Tony's a member of the Jets, a rival "American" gang. The young lovers want to stop an upcoming rumble, but when Bernardo kills Jet leader Riff (John Ducey), Tony avenges his friend's death by offing Bernardo...
...every time the talk got around to specifics, Baker's hosts retreated to their usual dug-in positions. For example, 10 Palestinian nationalist leaders from the occupied territories insisted to Baker that the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Israel spurns as a terrorist gang, must remain their sole representative. Said Faisal Husseini, the most prominent Palestinian leader in Jerusalem: "We told him we are here because ((P.L.O. Chairman)) Yasser Arafat told us to be here...
Four cops are indicted as their chief battles resignation demands. -- A gang movie sparks widespread violence. -- Where are the Democrats? -- Returning troops may find normal life a letdown...
Across the country over the past two weeks, young moviegoers have rioted, fought and shot one another in or near theaters showing a film called New Jack City. The new Warner Bros. release, studded with street clashes and gang culture, recounts the rise and fall of a black cracklord. To some alarmed observers, the upheavals suggested that life was imitating art at a time when more and more urban youths are armed and prone to just the sort of violence that such films so graphically portray...
Some movie experts maintain that cinematic violence has reached such a pitch that spontaneous imitations are inevitable. Others say that disputes arise because young audiences have long had a habit of talking back to the characters and commenting on the movie as it runs. The difference today is that gangs come to the theaters armed and prepared to settle their altercations with shoot-outs. But for all the hand wringing over the latest outcropping of violence, Hollywood has little incentive to stop making gang movies: New Jack City was No. 2 at the box office last week, grossing an impressive...