Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found in watching him being maneuvered toward comeuppance by characters everyone can love as underdogs. The Wachowskis have the predilection for loopy camera setups common to first-time directors, but their hearts are in the right transgressive place, and their film will tide some of us over until Quentin gets...well...unbound...
...course, is overdue. By current law-enforcement tallies, Crips colors fly in 42 states, and the gang is linked annually to thousands of murders, robberies and drug deals. But if Williams, 42, has much to regret, he has also done more than apologize. Writing with stubby pencils from San Quentin's death row in California, the convicted murderer published this month the first half of a 17-book series titled Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence. "You can learn from my mistakes," Williams advises readers in simple, effective prose. "It's the best set of books I've ever read...
...church choir, admits Williams, who was condemned to death in 1981 for fatally shotgunning four unresisting victims during motel and convenience-store holdups. But his transformation, he insists, should be judged separately from his crimes. Arriving at San Quentin in 1981 as a feared gangsta godfather, Williams was content for years to watch sullenly from death row as gang violence spread--and with it, an urban nightmare...
...springtime for off-Hollywood film, with maverick hits like Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Brothers McMullen--and Pulp Fiction by that spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there were 700. They earned $735 million at the U.S. box office, nearly triple the gross in 1992. Redford's festival created an aura that welcomed young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do the same. Says indie producer John Pierson: "Sundance totally dominates the independent landscape...
...repeated his opposition to the antiabortion plank in the party platform. Though Dole and Wilson (and their wives) were once close, the Senator now finds the Governor occasionally confusing. Wilson recently took Dole on a California trip that began at the gas chamber at California State Prison, San Quentin, and ended at Richard Nixon's grave. Dole aides are still ridiculing it as the "Wilson Death Tour...