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Reid was not born to Islam; he is a convert with a convert's zeal. His grandfather was a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, and his father Colvin Robin Reid met and married Lesley Hughes, a white woman who was the daughter of an accountant and magistrate. Richard was born in London in 1973, by which time his father, known as Robin, was in jail for car theft. All told, Robin has spent about 20 years behind bars. "I've seen the inside of most of London's prisons," he says. "I was no great example...
...jailed for the first time. In the next few years, Richard was in and out of prison, and when he bumped into his father in a shopping mall seven or eight years ago, he seemed depressed and downhearted. "He was born here in Britain, like I was," says Robin. "It was distressing to be told things like 'Go home, nigger!'" For once Robin, who had converted to Islam while in prison in the 1980s, had a suggestion that seemed to make sense. Muslims, he says, "treat you like a human being." Plus, he says, they get better food in prison...
...reminiscent of 1998’s Patch Adams. At one point in the movie, a doctor is even shown wearing Patch-esque bunny ears complete with marshmallow nose for her young charges in a cancer ward. But the similarities end there; Dragonfly forgoes the feel-good sappiness of the Robin Williams film and falls short in its attempt to be another Sixth Sense...
...thing you won’t be able to deny: Kevin Costner is good at what he does, and this does not involve acting well. Since his glory days of the early 90s, when he starred in blockbuster after blockbuster (Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams and Robin Hood: Prince of Theives), he has accepted many a dismal script and acted poorly in many a mediocre movie. But it is who wins the financial endgame that matters and in the case of Dragonfly, Costner wins with a salary of $15 million and that is no laughing matter...
...Canadian teams completed the formality of sweeping their respective Olympic round-robin pools Saturday. The last formality—winning their semifinal games—is set for today. Canada will take on Finland at 1 p.m. and the U.S. will meet Sweden...