Word: braugher
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Starring Andre Braugher, Rip Torn...
...verge of clenching the New Orleans colored city championship. They know, however, that their victory is not complete; Travis is determined to find out how they stack up against Jesuit, the best white team in the city. When the St. Augustine coach leaves suddenly, Father Verrett (Homicide's Andre Braugher) takes over as coach. A determined desegregationist from Baltimore, Verrett seizes on the idea of a game with Jesuit as a way to quicken the pace of reform in New Orleans...
Both Andre Braugher and Rip Torn deliver excellent performances as Verrett and Grant. Tension results between the two friends when they cannot agree on the best way to combat segregation. Verrett pursues equality with an almost reckless passion, while Grant still hopes to effect change through official channels. This same sort of tension is played out convincingly between Travis and his father, whose concern for Travis' safety makes him a constant check on his son's determined idealism...
...convocation. Lee and his partners were also determined to make the movie on a shoestring budget of $2.4 million. The director waived his usual $5 million fee and worked for scale, as did the entire cast, including such well-known actors as Ossie Davis, Charles Dutton and Andre Braugher. The combination of low cost, big names and a built-in audience made Bus an attractive project, and Columbia Pictures offered to finance it. But Lee saw it as an opportunity to break into the white-dominated world of film financing. "I said to Reuben...
...Fighter Squadron, which first went into combat in April 1943 and eventually shot down 16 enemy planes, destroyed four more and damaged six others in just nine months. Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It), Allen Payne (New Jack City), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Outbreak) and Andre Braugher (TV's Homicide) play the much-decorated flyers. "Nothing compares to this," says Robert Williams, 73, an airman who sold the story concept to hbo after spending 43 years shopping it around Hollywood. "Not even flying 50 missions, shooting down two Germans and getting the Distinguished Flying Cross from...