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Which, of course, is standard fare for the cookie-cutter action movies Hollywood cranks out by the dozen. But I had hoped that a director as noted as John Singleton and an actor with Jackson's talent would produce something more challenging than a cinematic gangsta-rap song. The original Shaft--one of the first black movie heroes to talk back to the Man and get away with it--meant something special to blacks like me who came of age during the '70s. We could use another hero like that now. Instead we got the shaft...
NAME: JOHN SINGLETON AGE: 32 OCCUPATION: Shaft director BEST DODGE: "Sam is opinionated, but I respect that." The real cause of on-set tension? "It was our producer, Scott Rudin, that was the big problem...
Shut your mouth! Hide your eyes! In fact, erase your memories! There's nothing "bad" about John Shaft in John Singleton's nephew-of remake of Gordon Parks's 1971 breakthrough movie that defined the blaxploitation genre. Gone is the hard-living, hard-loving vigilante avenger banging on Hollywood's door with the butt of a .45 and challenging its whitewashing of American reality. In his stead we have his focus-group tested nephew, designed to appeal to a much wider audience but stripped, in the process, of his ability to thrill...
...American black bear, which normally gives birth to two or three cubs at a time, may walk away from one born alone, calculating that it's better to wait for a multiple birth next year than exhaust herself with a singleton now. Mice will examine offspring after they're born and eat undersize young, improving the overall fitness of the litter and giving themselves a valuable dose of protein in the process...
...elegant Somerset Club, founded in 1851, occupies the mansion of David Sears, Class of 1807, designed in 1819 by Alexander Parris and built on the site of the farm formerly owned by John Singleton Copley. Four large oval rooms, two private dining rooms, a “morning room,” a library and an immense living room in the Directoire style make up the core of the building. Beyond this resplendent salon are the ivy strewn walls that surround the Somerset’s garden and terrace, known as “the Bricks,” where...