Word: thugging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leaving home, finding serendipitous love, and appreciating the past for all the right reasons. The production chronicles the story of Theodore Jennings (Mac C. Bartels ’09) who inherits his grandfather’s most valuable possession: a desiccated vulture which allegedly belonged to a notorious Cincinnati thug. Against his avaricious family’s wishes, Theodore takes his family’s heirloom to the PBS show Antiques Roadshow to get appraised. Along the journey from his depressing home to public television, he meets an unlikely love interest (Kathleen E. Hale ’09) and overcomes...
It’s hard to stabilize Ghostface’s characters, and in that sense they have an independence that is very rare in hip-hop. Stereotypes like Tupac’s reformed thug or 50 Cent’s muscled, gun-totin’, sex god aren’t characters; they’re devices a rapper can use to move a song along. Ghostface lets his characters get away from him. His stories are so exhilarating to listen to because he doesn’t seem to have complete control over them...
Polanski’s guest appearance as a cut-rate thug who slashes Nicholson’s nose shows how far away this film is from the comparative civility of Hitchcock territory...
...before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you?ll be hearing this: "And the winner is? from the Terrorist?I mean Palestinian Authority?" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World War I, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a German film about the World War II activist tried and killed for protesting against Hitler. But the award often...
...with many lucky New Yorkers, to enjoy performances by neo-soul stalwarts West, John Legend, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Kool G Rap and, reunited for the first time in seven years, the Fugees. Chapelle’s guests of honor are not thug-life poseurs; they are intellectual and, often, political wordsmiths. But they are also accessible. No matter one’s previous exposure or interest in hip-hop/R&B music, this flick is worth enjoying. Somehow, Gondry films the performances—coasting on their funkyness and expressivity...