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Buckingham found her way to video after more traditional sculpture and drawing classes at Harvard. She says, "I knew when I came to Harvard that I wanted to do art, [but]...sculpture and drawing just didn't lend themselves to the stories I wanted my work to tell." Video, then, was a natural choice for Buckingham, whose self-professed inability to "think linearly" swayed her away from film, a medium that requires a much more carefully structured approach to creating a cohesive set of images...
...range with sheer physicality is virtually unmatched and his screen presence here is utterly commanding. But in the end, the greatest accomplishment may belong to Morse, the veteran character actor and former St. Elsewhere stalwart, who takes a potentially thankless role and goes through a De Niroesque transformation to lend the character of Bowman atragic eloquence...
Badu's themes aren't easy dates: they don't reveal their meanings in just one hearing, and they don't lend themselves to a single interpretation. Badu says one of her new songs, the softly radiant A.D. 2000, was inspired by the killing of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo at the hands of the New York City police. It's a subject that has been explored recently by Bruce Springsteen (American Skin) and Wyclef Jean (Diallo). Unlike those efforts, which were both strong, provocative songs, Badu's take never mentions the specifics of the episode and as a result...
...didn't want that to happen to me." When ISC told him his idea would be expensive to bring to market, he winced. Like his father, he didn't have the money. It wouldn't be a problem, the salesman told him. A subsidiary of ISC would lend him the money until the royalties began to roll in. But those royalties never came...
...Lend a helping hand...