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Forrester (Connery) is a one-book novelist, fallen into an endless Salinger-esque funk. From the window of his Bronx apartment he watches black kids playing basketball in a vastly changed neighborhood. The best and brightest of them, Jamal (good newcomer Brown), penetrates his lair on a dare, and a mentoring relationship develops between the cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant...
Finding Forrester brings together the gruff, Salinger-like recluse author William Forrester (Sean Connery) and the 16-year-old Jamal Wallace (newcomer Rob Brown), already a fine writer himself with basketball skills to match. It takes some time, of course, for their relationship to progress through the steps of the student-mentor story formula: they spar at first, but gradually grow more comfortable with each other, talking, writing and dishing out pseudo-profound remarks that are far less interesting than the screenwriter must have thought. More than anything, their friendship appears to be based on simply spending time together, yammering...
...SHEIK JAMAL TAWIL, 40, IS THE IMAM OF THE GRAND MOSQUE IN BEITUNIYA, A DISTRICT OF RAMALLAH IN THE WEST BANK...
Rage Against the Machine's lead singer ZACH DE LA ROCHA has decried American imperialism, sweatshops, Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence--you name the lefty cause, he's written a song about it. Now the consummate angry young man is raging against his own machine. "I feel that it is necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed," he says. "It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band and, from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal." ("Creative differences" would have sufficed.) Guitarist Tom Morello...
Protesters cited racial profiling, inhuman punishment against people in police custody, discrimination against urban youths and the death row case of Mumia Abu-Jamal as their reasons for rallying...