Word: glover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, Back to the Future is characteristically a summer movie with its emphasis on light-hearted fun. Marty's parents George (Crispin Glover) and Lorraine (Lea Thompson) are the quintessential kids of the '50s. To Lorraine's ingenuous facade, Thompson brings dashes of practiced sophistication that catch you off guard...
...fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will be his mother, if -- big if -- he can deflect her crush on him toward the nice-guy nerd (Crispin Glover) who will be his father. All clear...
Does the new ascendancy of such chiefs mean that blacks will take over law enforcement, as the Irish and then the Italians did before them? Some observers think not. "The majority of high-ranking officers in most departments are white, and will be for some time," says John Glover, the one black among eleven assistant directors of the FBI. This small pool of future black chiefs may shrink further as opportunities for blacks open up in more lucrative fields. But the fact remains that the nation's largest cities are increasingly dominated by politicians who know that to survive they...
...addition to caring for her two children, played with an admirable lack of the cutesiness so common among children actors today, Edna takes in a blind boarder (John Malkovich) and a wondering black man (Danny Glover) who "knows everything there is to know about cotton." With this cast of misfits, Edna is determined to beat the local bank when the shadow of an unpaid mortgage threatens to tear her family apart...
Outside the theater, blacks were becoming hard to ignore, and their impact was refracted on the screen. "When schools were being desegregated," recalls Danny Glover, a likely Oscar nominee for his performance as the hobo in Places in the Heart, "you saw Poitier become a film star. And in the wake of the Watts riots and the push for community control, you got blaxploitation." These were the low-budget gangster and horror movies that, along with prestige efforts like Sounder and Lady Sings the Blues, detonated the explosion of black films in the early '70s. Suddenly directors like Gordon...