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...especially his mother Violetta (Angela Bassett). His ladies provide a few steamy sex scenes; The Lady, Violetta, anchors the story as one of a noble mom demanding that her boy meet the high standards she's set for him. It's worth noting that the director, George Tillman Jr., previously did the femme-family Soul Food - and, even more, that the movie's producers include Combs and Violetta Wallace. They come to praise Biggie. The result is not exposé but eulogy...
Yesterday Barack Obama called for a day of service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., and in keeping with the "sacrifice" theme of his new Administration, many heeded the summons, doing good deeds at soup kitchens and homeless shelters. But millions of others just went to the movies. I was one of them. I hadn't seen the three films that topped the weekend box office and was curious to know what was luring the public, in such vast numbers, out of their overmortgaged homes and into the cold. I saw a horror movie, a musical biopic...
...Picture attendance often rises in hard times; what's bad for the economy is good for movies. And though employers might rue the lost work in a day off for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Hollywood loves long weekends, which put the public in a moviegoing mood. In the past four days the North American box office registered nearly $250 million - the highest ever for an M.L.K. weekend, and among the top 10 weekends ever - and each of the four new releases earned more than $20 million. My Bloody Valentine killed (grossing $24.2 million); Notorious was B.I.G. ($24 million...
...Black intelligentsia no longer permit the usual suspects of the criminal justice industry to control the policy discourse on questions of public safety that so disproportionately affect poor Black people. The Boston Foundation’s current twenty-six million dollar Street Safe initiative, led by Robert Lewis Jr., presents an excellent opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to volunteer in local community-based organizations in the effort to stem violence in the Black community...
...care what others thought of them. So I didn't care anymore. But now I do because I believe Obama listens and understands and has his heart in the right place. It's a gift, Mr. President. Thank you for restoring my faith in my country. Raul Garza Jr., San Antonio...