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...perplexing chasm separated the two Tupac Shakurs. As rap's Public Gangsta No. 1, he spumed venom on CD, reeked menace onstage, wore his tattoos like a war hero's medals, did time for violent crimes and, at 25, got gunned down in Las Vegas last September. As a budding film star, though, he pinwheeled charm and emotional purity. Shakur, who had acted professionally since he was 12, wasn't quite Sidney Poitier, but in a decent range of roles (in Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim) he showed power and promise...
...MOVIES . . . GRIDLOCK'D: An ambitious first film as writer-director by actor Vondie Curtis Hall, starring Tupac Shakur. Shakur plays Spoon, a musician who resolves to say aloha to heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees, who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This...
LIMA, Peru: The hostage crisis in Peru is once again at an impasse. President Alberto Fujimori, who had allowed that freedom for jailed Tupac Amaru rebels could at least be discussed, retreated Wednesday to his original hard stance, saying: "We are not going to allow (government negotiator Domingo) Palermo to go to the conversation table and sit down if they haven't accepted that there won't be any freeing of prisoners." Fujimori said other issues, including improved prison conditions for the jailed rebels and safe passage and possible pardons for the hostage-takers, could be raised. Red Cross representative...
...President's most vivid rebuff yet of Tupac Amaru's demand. And given the guerrillas' own intransigence, it illustrated just how long Peru's hostage crisis could drag on. Since the well-being of the hostages keeps Fujimori from using his iron fist to rescue them, he decided last week to rely on his own steely resolve, settling into a tense staring match with Tupac Amaru...
...terrorist buster and friend of the poor was at stake inside the Japanese residence as much as the lives of the hostages. In an interview with Time last week, his first face-to-face session with the press since the crisis began, Fujimori adamantly rejected political dialogue with Tupac Amaru, insisting that the group was "in extinction." And he seemed nettled by one criticism growing louder as a result of the crisis: that in his impressive but authoritarian crusade to end Peru's long night of guerrilla terrorism--especially the atrocities of the Maoist-inspired Shining Path--he has ended...