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...movie sex, lies, and videotape) in Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle Parsons. Al Pacino opens in two one-act plays in late...
Whether it will be as successful remains to be seen. But the profile and power of the Viper are outright provocative. Made only in bright red with curves and scoops that echo past roadsters, the Viper reeks of speed. Underneath the hood is Chrysler's most powerful engine, an eight-liter V-10 that can explode from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 4.5 sec. While some environmentalists argue that the car is an energy hog, its overall performance has impressed auto enthusiasts. "The Viper makes your lips curl, and your eyes bulge with the terror of taking such a beast...
...movie business, they say the calls you receive are a barometer of your importance. If so, it would probably be wise to declare a storm watch around John Singleton. What's keeping his phone line sizzling is the phenomenal success of his debut feature film, Boyz N the Hood. When it opened last July, Boyz's commercial survival seemed threatened by sporadic violence at theaters across the country. But ultimately the film's own passionate condemnation of violence won out. Made for a modest $6 million, it has grossed more than $57 million domestically, making it the most profitable movie...
...been out of school just a month when Columbia Pictures made a bid to buy Boyz N the Hood. Instead of gratefully accepting the offer, Singleton insisted that he be allowed to direct the film. His entire directorial experience at that point consisted of a few homework assignments with an 8-mm camera. "So many bad films had been made about black people, and most of them had been done by people who weren't African American," he says. "I wasn't going to let some fool from Idaho or Encino direct a movie about living in my neighborhood...
...girls alone by the roadside holding up signs reading I WILL WORK FOR FOOD. What do you think is going to happen to them? All the time, homeless children turn up in gang neighborhoods knocking on doors, saying, "I want to claim. I want to be from this 'hood." And the gangs let them...