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...Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. The black experience in America as interpreted by the tapping, stomping feet of Savion Glover and company. The sketches--on how hard it is to hail a cab in Manhattan, or be a black dancing star in 1930s Hollywood--are satirically on target, and the dancers perform with demon drive. What a year for musicals...
...though you were quizzing them about hedge funds or Harold Pinter. The boys, no budding back-to-the-landers, are the sons of TV-friendly Manhattan media professionals, but neither James nor Everett has ever watched Saturday-morning cartoons. "This is family time," explains Everett's mom Priscilla Glover, "one of the few times during the week we can all be together. Everett knows he can watch the Disney Channel whenever he wants, so he doesn't beg to glue himself to the TV on the weekends. He doesn't even know what he is missing...
Cannon and Lee drew up a list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...
...sanctimony made him almost unbearable by season's end. "Danny's main strength was an enigmatic, very still quality, which I was really attracted to," reflects Bochco. "But he didn't do much beyond that with any particular ease." After approaching too costly stars like Alan Alda and Danny Glover, Bochco settled on LaPaglia, a talented character actor who has made his mark in a number of independent films including Bulletproof Heart and the current Steve Buscemi film Trees Lounge. Bochco then set about retooling the show to exploit the dramatic possibilities the new character offered. Says LaPaglia: "The character...
...signed a new, long-term agreement with William Morris, and allies rallied behind him. "He was honest, honorable and forthcoming in a way in which nobody in Hollywood has the guts to be anymore," said DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg. Stallone praised Rifkin, and a source close to Willis and Glover says they too will remain with him. Rifkin, known for psychospeak, was philosophical. "I feel as though I've journeyed to a place and I've come back stronger and wiser...