Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is to compare her to her other roles such as the moving "The Color Purple" or hilarious "Jumpin' Jack Flash." In "Corrina, Corrina," she is an underplayed version of her true self. As expectation would have it, she would push beyond the role as it was written and create something extraordinary from the mundane. But she doesn't reach that point. Throughout the film I kept waiting for a moment or two of Whoopi as the insightfully funny or pointedly wicked, but she only serves to fulfill what has been written for her and nothing more...
...definitely worth seeing. A creative premise, Carrey's character finds himself a addicted to the assertive personality he becomes while under the spell of a mysterious wooden mask he finds. Unfortunately, I don't think he was the "Mask" often enough. And his little dog makes me want a Jack Russell terrier...
...Wolf," with its all-star cast of Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, retells the gothic werewolf story without any spark or creativity. Rent it on video, if you can't resist...
Benjamin Chavis, the chief exec of the nation's largest civil rights organization, will be fired tomorrow and an oversight committee will be appointed until a replacement is found, a NAACP source has told TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White. The NAACP board meets tomorrow in Baltimore ostensibly to decide Chavis's fate. But White's source says a deal has already been cut within the NAACP to get rid of Chavis. Chavis has came under fire recently because he settled a sexual harrassment suit with money taken from the NAACP. Yesterday, a second woman accused Chavis of alleged improper advances...
...Colored People, is hearing calls for his resignation -- from once-staunch supporters. The Chicago Southside chapter is demanding that Chavis resign because he settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with NAACP money. The Southside branch, with 20,000 members, is one of the largest in the country. TIME Senior Correspondent Jack White says that this latest news adds to the pressure on the NAACP's 64-member board to fire Chavis at its meeting this Saturday. But, White adds, "getting rid of Chavis would be extremely embarrassing . . . it may well be that even though you have all this pressure, Chavis...