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...hang out with them because I would make them laugh," he recalls. After studying drama at New York University, Leguizamo landed some supporting roles on TV's Miami Vice and soon moved on to movies. In Hollywood he has alternated between playing mama's boys (Casualties of War, Hangin' with the Homeboys) and baby- faced killers (Die Hard II, Regarding Henry...
...Hangin' with the Homeboys, the engaging new black-Hispanic comedy in which this scene appears, isn't the only place you can catch some provocative episodes of ghetto theater. The pageant of inner-city anger and anguish is playing at a theater near you. Suddenly, it seems, dozens of films by black directors are in circulation, from artistic achievements like Charles Burnett's family drama To Sleep with Anger (now on video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just...
...whiz who put the Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr" reads a large credit on the Hangin' Tough album). His gifts give the Kids a smooth buzz, but his ego increasingly gives them a pain...
...drunken, violent father whose debts n' poor judgment are th' reason th' family is up shit creek t' begin with. Wesley is an arrogant chip off th' ol' blockhead, another one of those Shepard man-children who wears flannel shirts n' still has strings of model airplanes hangin' from th' ceiling in his room...
...heart of the matter, then, is that an objective judge will ultimately be a hangin' judge, who carefully avoids extending rights beyond where they stood...