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Jeffrey Wright makes quite an entrance in Shaft. He arrives with a phalanx of lackeys and junkyard dogs, an ice pick in his pocket and a trash-talking mouth aimed point-blank at Samuel L. Jackson. It's the kind of grand, self-important entrance you haven't seen since Liberace stopped making TV specials. And for the rest of the movie, Wright lives up to that moment with his broadly drawn, carefully shaded performance as Peoples Hernandez, a drug kingpin and the first great movie villain of this millennium...
...Graham, who has refused food since his transfer to Huntsville Wednesday, must know he's pretty much doomed at this point; unless the Supreme Court makes an extremely uncharacteristic move and stops the execution on the basis of a procedural question, he'll die tonight. Outside the prison, Jesse Jackson and other supporters are likely to continue their protests and prayers well into the evening...
Lessig, who served as an adviser to Judge Jackson in the Microsoft case, is a Harvard law professor, a fellow at Berlin's Wissenschaftskolleg and author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
...when the original came out you didn't have the culture jam-packed with images of black athletes, actors and musicians defining what was cool. Back then, the very fact of having an aggressive, rebellious, stylish, smart black man as its hero thrilled audiences. Now you see Samuel Jackson in these Armani clothes, and there's nothing unusual or remarkable about him - I kept giggling to myself because he looked like the R&B singer R. Kelly...
...original Shaft exuded sexual energy and confidence, but there's nothing in this script that gives you any idea of why these women would want to sleep with him. When he drops that "duty to satisfy the booty" line out of the blue, it's incongruous. Frankly, Samuel Jackson was a lot more cool - and more like the original Shaft - in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction...