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...edge. Washington plays LAPD Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris, a veteran who has invested far too much time in the gutter in his attempts to get his job done as an undercover police officer in the city. The movie traces the one day that Harris spends with a trainee, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), and Hoyt’s attempts to prove to Harris that he has what it takes to make it in the squadron. Trailers emphasize the roller-coaster ride that Hoyt will endure in that one day, as his idealism crashes violently against Harris’s reality...
...been stalking for a decade. At the same time, he's got to pay off some Russian mafiosi he has offended or end up dead himself. Oh, yeah, it's also his first day on the job with a new partner, an idealistic and ambitious square named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), who needs to be taught the ropes. Or put that another way: Alonzo wants to entangle the rookie in those ropes, make Jake complicit in his corruption...
...struggle for the kid's soul largely takes place in Alonzo's "office," a 1978 Monte Carlo low-rider, where he offers beer and pot and the promise of promotion, fame and ill-gotten gains. These alternate with threats of death and dishonor if Jake refuses to go along...
Band members Alex Scammon ’01 and Jake Fleming ’01 promise that FFF’s charismatic lead singer, Benjamin D. Scheuer ’04, coupled with the band’s lively and energetic stage presence will result in a show abounding in audience participation. “It’s all about getting people up and dancing,” said Scammon...
...Iowas Jake Wilson took the B flight singles title, besting Browns Adil Shamasdin in straight sets...