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...representative said the business, owned by a banker, a doctor and "two boys from the 'hood," will "help people learn about ownership...
Park said he tried to make small changes in his script to contradict the stereotype he portrayed. When the pizzeria burned down in one scene, Park said he banged on the hood of a car to show frustration...
...however, we look at Norplant as providing a fresh start for welfare women overwhelmed by the burdens of mother-hood, the positive benefits might outweigh the authoritarian aura that surrounds the government-sponsored use of Norplant. If we could assist mothers by packaging the insertion of Norplant with a program of education, counseling, and periodic medical checkups, if we could convince them to accept Norplant voluntarily, we just might be able to help them turn their lives around. This should be done, not with cash incentives that would increase their dependency on welfare, but with non-financial aid that would...
Some of rap is about acting, role playing. That's probably one reason why so many rappers are going into movies. Cube made an impressive debut as a sympathetic, beer-drinking thug in the 1991 Boyz N the Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun-toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album...
...Carey, the union's first democratically elected leader, publicly disdains Hollywood's portrayal of Hoffa's legacy. "He clearly was no Robin Hood, and he shouldn't be painted that way," declares Carey. Although the film doesn't say so, the real Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, mail fraud and taking kickbacks. Two weeks before he disappeared, in 1975, investigators discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars had been stolen from the Teamsters' largest pension fund. "Hoffa was a dishonest person," says Carey. "You just have to look at all the pensioners around the country who lost money...