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...GROUSE ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE OF THE tried and true, but ultimately that's just what the audience wants. Proof: this holiday season's movie- attendance figures. The big disappointments were all thematically adventurous: Leap of Faith (Steve Martin as an evangelist), Hoffa (Jack Nicholson as a labor leader), Malcolm X (Denzel Washington as a civil rights activist) and Toys (Robin Williams as . . . whatever...
...rode in the back of the bus, and he sure isn't going to go out handcuffed in the rear of a police car. The first song, When Will They Shoot?, is a blast of fear and loathing to a thumping metallic beat. "Will they do me like Malcolm?" Ice Cube asks. "Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven . . . The KKK has got three-piece suits...
...with him? Lean knew that life is full of dramatic events, but it's what's inside that counts; the enthralling vistas matter less than the interior vision. That lesson is lost on Hollywood, whose idea of epic biography is a story of a big shot (Gandhi, Bugsy Siegel, Malcolm X) who got shot. Violent death is meant to lend tragic grandeur...
Sometimes his methods are unconventional. Over the summer he took groups of Malcolm X students from the fifth and sixth grades to the District of Columbia morgue and pulled back the sheets on the bodies to show the children the ultimate product of violence and drugs. On one visit, the children viewed a corpse riddled with 11 bullet holes. The victim's mouth had been sealed with duct tape. One of the children in the group recognized the body as someone from the neighborhood...
Pannell and his staff offer a constant refrain. "What is the rule?" he asks. "No hitting, kicking, fighting or other types of negative, violent behavior," answer the students. Even among Malcolm X kindergartners, tempers can flair into serious combat with little or no provocation. In the community around Malcolm X, fighting often escalates in an instant. "There are no more fisticuffs," says Pannell. "It's maiming, stabbing, shooting immediately. This is the kind of learned behavior, the environment in which these children are growing up." At Malcolm X, the short-term objective is to intercede and present a peaceful resolution...