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...DeMille's The Ten Commandments ... What we choose to dwell on in the story of Moses says as much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs ... Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most powerful hero in biblical history ... After him, nothing else was the same again." --TIME...
...with equal fervor. And while the Murphys don’t stray too far from the all-things-Boston-and-Irish formula, they throw in a few welcome surprises, including raucous covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” and Gang Green’s “Alcohol...
...time in the spotlight. His role in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe won him the 1998 best actor award at Cannes and made him a sought-after commodity. He now has the luxury of choosing his projects and turned down a part in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York to make The Magdalene Sisters. Hollywood has beckoned but Mullan still sees himself as a working-class lad from Glasgow. "It's like the 'Are you still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class...
...Angeles Times last week published the conclusions of a yearlong investigation into the murder of rapper TUPAC SHAKUR, who was shot in Las Vegas in 1996. While it has long been suspected that Shakur was a victim of feuding between East Coast and West Coast rappers and their affiliated gangs, the Times dropped a bit of a bombshell by placing Notorious B.I.G. at the scene of the crime. The paper says that B.I.G., one of Shakur's chief rivals, was in Las Vegas at the time of the killing and alleges that he paid members of the Crips gang...
...somebody needs a lawyer, she is it. "All I knew was, I had this assignment," she says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty bomber for al-Qaeda, constitutional test case for the new millennium--arrived in New York City. And by pure chance, it fell to Newman to defend him--which is how an obscure criminal-defense lawyer began her transformation into a crusader who is now suing...