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Particularly outstanding performances--in an excellent cast--are given by Lee and Danny Aiello, who plays Sal, the owner of the pizza shop. Both succeed in their very human and confused portrayals of characters torn in many directions...
...Hazelwood endure all this attention and ridicule? Some friends fear the worst. "Private people are not prepared to be torn apart like this under the public microscope," warns Colorado physician Eugene O'Neill, an old friend of Hazelwood's. "I've seen patients on the verge of suicide over things like this. How much longer are we going to prey on this human being...
...homeless children, compared with an estimated 2,000 a decade ago, roam the streets of Managua. At a busy intersection, a twelve-year-old girl throws a pack of cigarettes through a car window into a driver's lap. As she stuffs a wad of money into her torn blouse she blows a kiss, leans forward and asks, "Do you want to see more...
...difficult because I don't have the luxury white filmmakers have. Hollywood makes 500 films a year. How many of those are black films? On the one hand you want to be yourself, on the other hand you can't turn your back on black people. We're torn...
...minute student film that took the great director to task for his portrayal of blacks in the Old South. He went on to win a student director's Academy Award for his thesis, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, about a Brooklyn barber who is torn between legitimacy and petty crime. After graduation, he began work on a drama about a young black bicycle messenger but was forced to abort the project when financing fell apart. Though he says it was the most painful period in his career, the resilient director turned around and started working on another...