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...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PAYBACK TIME | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...films begins a little self-importantly, awash in its Picasso Blue period palette, mimicking the voice-over style and groove of the Bogart noir, only Porter's not a dick, just a guy who gets back stabbed by his wife and partner in a heist. He vows revenge, but takes his time reacquainting himself with the city and its environs, plotting. We get the feeling from the start that he's just biding his time, a shark circling its prey, but he does take the whole thing a little too seriously. His bad-ass persona seems a bit silly considering...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PAYBACK TIME | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Jones told the crowd that the recent case of Anthony Porter, an Illinois deathrow inmate who was found innocent just before he was executed, is an example of the flawed system. Porter was released last week after another man confessed to the killing...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Rallyers Protest Death Penalty | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...articles printed the same morning of Oppenheim's editorial are especially ironic. The first was about an African-American man, Anthony Porter, who had been on death row for 16 years and came within two days of being executed. Last week, journalism students at Northwestern University found the real murderer and recorded his confession. When released, Porter will be the 76th wrongfully convicted American freed from the hell of death row. How many innocent people have already been murdered by the state, whose administration of justice has been proven to be discriminatory on the basis of both race and class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facts of Jamal Murder Case Are in Dispute | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...gangster fantasies--"ghetto high fashion," he calls it. Offstage too Combs cuts a swashbuckling figure. In white-on-white suits and a black bowler, he is chauffeured around in a Bentley, and hangs his hat in a cavernous $14 million Manhattan mansion that he shares with his girlfriend, Kim Porter, and their 10-month-old son Christian. When the weather turns cold, Combs suns aboard a yacht moored off the island of St. Bart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation: Sean Puffy Combs | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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