Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth Ray ("I can't type...I can't even answer the phone"), and Paula Parkinson, who didn't play golf but teed up on an outing to Florida with top Republicans. Maxa says Flynt has created the ideal situation for loosening tongues: "money layered on top of revenge...
...film about a dope-dealing poet from the soul-squashing projects of Washington was a winner on the chic slopes and shores of this year's festivals. The poet-pusher is Ray Joshua, played by a scrawny charismatic named Saul Williams; and the film, Slam, arrives in theaters laden with laurels from Sundance and Cannes. Burdened, really, for this is a small movie, as vulnerable as it is volatile, about young black men in trouble. Its underworldly corrosiveness can't hide a heart full of hope...
...director Marc Levin's bifocal vision, Ray is a thug and a saint: he sells weed to the locals and buys ice cream for the neighborhood kids. Of course Ray will be nabbed, for a minor crime, and sent to the rathole of a D.C. jail. Another new guy, a rich Asian American (Beau Sia, scary and very funny), is so sure he'll be sprung that he spits wild invective at the screws. But Ray knows not to mouth off. Jail for him is a familiar horror: school with the toughest students and faculty...
...high-calorie emoting in the flick of a verb) encourages the inmates to examine the cycle of violence and put it into verse; they respond with pensive street scat like "I shot three m______f______s, and I don't know why." Well, it's a start. For Ray, it is the start of big things. He falls in love both with Lauren and with the furious folk art of slamming--a mix of hipster poetry contest and hip-hop riffing. Now Slam starts to look like a 'hooded update of The Corn Is Green and A Star Is Born...
...loopy sentimentality--finally embrace. And it's always nice to see an independent film made by people who aren't secretly angling to produce the next season of Caroline in the City. This is more like "Caroling in the Inner City," especially in a strong scene in which Ray silences rival gangs in the prison yard with his raving eloquence...