Word: kasi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1997-1997
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bayou "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." With these words, writer-director Kasi Lemmons begins a story of family love, lust and deceit. Samuel L. Jackson and Debbi Morgan shine in--what? The best film ever made by a black American? Could well be. The year's most haunting family drama...
Samuel L. Jackson produces and stars in this gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayou, but graciously hands the story over to the lesser known actresses surrounding him, including Debbi Morgan as a haunted clairvoyant and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons demonstrates impressive style and maturity in this dark, hypnotic film...
...York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the "mastermind" of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal court in New York City...
...they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said it had acted in retaliation for Kasi's conviction. In Fairfax, jurors in the case asked the judge...
Samuel L. Jackson produces and stars in this gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayou but graciously hands the story over to the lesser known actresses surrounding him, including Debbi Morgan as a haunted clairvoyant and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons, herself an actress, demonstrates impressive maturity in this dark, hypnotic film...