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...summer we've seen Norman Lear get religion (in CBS's Sunday Dinner); a former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, get a prime- time showcase (in five low-rated NBC specials); and CBS News invade the courtroom for a new reality series, Verdict. Three even more atypical offerings will debut in the next two weeks. Each would probably be regarded as too off the wall to be taken off the shelf during the cooler months. But two of them are worth some attention in any season...
...young, gifted and black in America today is to live poised on a cruelly honed knife-edge. There are doubtless more opportunities than ever for bright, ambitious kids to escape the ghetto. But the chances of being wasted by random violence have also increased. In his remarkable debut film, BOYZ N THE HOOD (as in neighborhood), writer-director John Singleton, 23, maps gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles with a cartographer's cool realism. But what gives powerful resonance to his film -- whose opening was accompanied by shootings in theaters across the U.S. that left at least one dead...
When the body of Carla Tate washes up a few miles south of Santa Barbara, $ the flashbacks unreel in A Hollywood Life (Simon & Schuster; 320 pages; $19.95). The movie star, nee Karen Teitel, makes her screen debut in infancy, moves on to kiddie westerns and eventually becomes a major cinema celebrity. En route she passes through every Hollywood vicissitude and fashion, from child abuse to blacklisting to Vietnam protests to exercise tapes. She also manages to collect a series of husbands and lovers, most notably movie executive Jack Markel, who has all the Hollywood requisites: he is 30 years older...
...much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits he was thrilled when Disney's Touchstone Pictures...
Courtroom activity will go round the clock with the July 1 debut of the Courtroom Television Network, a judicial version of CNN. The new cable channel (owned largely by Time Warner) will cover some trials live -- with play-by- play commentary from legal experts -- and others on tape in nightly wrap-up programs. The network hopes to premiere with the Los Angeles trial of four police officers charged in the videotaped beating of Rodney King...