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...South Africa, he moved to Charlottesville at age 19 (he had family in the area) to avoid the draft at home. Says Matthews: "I wasn't interested in joining their army--hell, no!" But he was interested in music, a passion that dated back to listening to Beatles and Jackson 5 records as a child. As a bartender at a Charlottesville joint named Miller's, he came across a lot of musicians and gathered some together to start a band. The DMB won a local following and signed with...
Transfer those opposites to a man, and there's old Bill-- good as gold, one day a week. Like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, like Harlem's former Congressman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., like Gabriel Grimes, the preacher father in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, he sins and repents, and then comes Monday...
Though it's hard to explain away the Rev. Jesse Jackson's moral shortcomings [DIVIDING LINE, Jan. 29], for the simple reason that he is supposed to be aboveboard even when the lights go out, nonetheless, he should not be ostracized. We must remember that even the Pope is just another mortal being. And like others, when he says his prayers, he asks forgiveness for his shortcomings. AFOLABI KUTI Lagos, Nigeria...
Genius, so much fiction tells us, is the flip side of madness. In this busy, woozy thriller, a psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder case involving a chic photographer (Colm Feore) of the Mapplethorpe stripe. The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Despite Jackson's typically bravura turn, this Valentine massacre marks a step backward for the gifted director...