Word: jacksonism
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...Reggie Jackson's favorite mo. 4. "Sorta" suffix 7. Double-helix compounds: Abbr. 11. "THAT's a laugh!" 12. Vincent Lopez's theme song 13. River past Interlaken 14. __ Skin (controversial Springsteen tune) 16. Ms. links letters 17. Subject to additional duty? 18. According to Forbes, he's still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some...
...Shaft": I think Samuel L. Jackson is a great actor. He looks fabulous. He looks even more fabulous in Armani. But I don't need to pay $10 to see him, thus clad, reciting singsong lyrics in a pallid imitation of the groundbreaking movie of the same name...
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...Gonzales: Buckwheat Juan Miguel (father): Oscar De La Hoya Lazaro Gonzales (great uncle): John Belushi Marisleysis (second cousin): Mary Tyler Moore Armando Gutierrez (family spokesman): Sinbad Greg Craig (fathers lawyer): Leslie Nielson Janet Reno: Jack Palance Fidel Castro: Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) Donato Dairymple: Chevy Chase Diane Sawyer: Victoria Jackson Bill Clinton: Hugh Hefner Al Gore: Rodney Dangerfield
Wright's a wonder, playing a role that was--deservedly--built up during production. But that leaves a lot of other actors--among them Vanessa Williams, Toni Collette and Roundtree himself (as Shaft's beamish uncle)--shortchanged. It also leaves Jackson to play yet another cop rebelliously disgusted with the system and Singleton with yet another urban action piece, well enough made but not essentially different from a hundred other movies just like...