Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the key to cyberpunk science fiction is that it is not so much a projection into the future as a metaphorical evocation of today's technological flux. The hero of Neuromancer, a burned-out, drug-addicted street hustler named Case, inhabits a sleazy INTERZONE on the fringes of a megacorporate global village where all transactions are carried out in New Yen. There he encounters Molly, a sharp-edged beauty with reflective lenses grafted to her eye sockets and retractable razor blades implanted in her fingers. They are hired by a mysterious employer who offers to fix Case's damaged...
...make sense of the loss of his lover, someone named Martin, to AIDS. The short stories we read emerge as one sustained cry of deflected grief, of pain mediated through fiction. From these stories, a sketchy narrative arises: John's violent childhood in Kansas, his adolescence spent as a hustler in New York, the meeting with Martin--and the final move back to Kansas, where Martin dies and where John begins to write...
...many of them know little about the details of Malcolm's remarkable evolution from a street hustler who slept with white women to an ascetic minister in the Nation of Islam who preached against whites and finally to an orthodox Muslim who embraced all races. Seldom do they mention Malcolm's reverence for education or his admonition that rights don't come without responsibilities. Lee has said that his primary mission in making the movie is "to open up the history book" on Malcolm's life and legacy. At the very least, he seems to have touched a nerve...
Audiences at the first few days' showings -- commonly up to 80% black, many of them young -- tended to be highly vocal, shouting at the screen and applauding, especially during scenes of Malcolm's flamboyant hustler days and later during some of his militant speeches. But by the end there was usually a respectful silence. Many people wept...
...more a producer -- a hustler after the big picture, an entrepreneur of scalding emotions -- than a director. As such, he is not one to attend to the shading of character. As Washington says, "He basically left me alone and let me run with it." Lee's moods had opposite effects on the excellent actresses who play Malcolm's wife and his white hussy. "He laughs, laughs large," says Angela Bassett (Betty). "He's energy plus." But Kate Vernon (Sophia) says, "He was belligerent and disrespectful in tone toward me. There's a boys' club, and women are not allowed -- especially...