Word: singleton
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...days after André Benjamin--known musically as Andre 3000, the wig-wearing, Hey Ya!--singing half of the multiplatinum duo OutKast--moved to Los Angeles to become an actor, he ran into the film director John Singleton at a health-food restaurant. OutKast had contributed a song to the sound track of Singleton's Higher Learning, and the two talked amiably until Benjamin mentioned that he was trying to break into movies. "When he said, 'I really want to get into this acting thing,' I just smiled politely," says Singleton of the 2002 conversation. "I didn't take him seriously...
...rapper from the streets made good known as Skinny Black. Performers on the sound track--including T.I., Mike Jones (from Houston) and Juvenile (from New Orleans)--will be playing Hustle & Flow concerts in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and New Orleans this summer. Hustle, says co-producer John Singleton proudly, is "the first crunk movie...
...parable of belief against all odds. At this year's Sundance festival, the movie, made for $3.5 million, copped critics' raves, the Audience Award and, from Paramount Classics/MTV Films, an astounding purchase price of $16 million, which included a $7 million deal for other films with co-producer John Singleton...
...just striving toughs--and tyro directors--who have dreams. Producers can catch the fever too. Stephanie Allain was a Columbia Pictures executive in 1990 when she signed Singleton, then just 22, to make Boyz n the Hood, which established the urban drama as a viable genre. When Allain could find no studio to say yes to Brewer's script, she sold her house and invested in the project. Then she alerted Singleton. "He loved it," says Brewer, "He said, 'All you need is me to go into the room with you.'" Still no takers. So Singleton put his house...
...yesterday, in Vaghar’s second appearance in court, Cambridge District Court Judge Severlin Singleton rejected the plea, instead saying that he wanted to impose a one year suspended sentence with a minimum of 60 days of jail time...