Word: singleton
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...United States Supreme Court has consented by inaction to let states make mentally incompetent convicts take antipsychotic drugs so they will be sane enough to be executed. Last Monday, on its first day of session, the Court chose to let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Charles L. Singleton, who was sentenced to death in Arkansas for a 1979 murder and later became insane, could be forced to take medication, restoring his sanity and making him eligible for execution...
...officers arrested Kesing Singleton in his Walden St. home on charges of domestic assault and battery...
...this rush of car-thrill movies? First, because they can make money. The 2001 Fast and the Furious, in which Walker teamed with Vin Diesel, earned $144 million at the domestic box office on a $38 million budget. Second, because they're enjoyable to assemble. Says John Singleton, director of 2F2F: "Early in my career, I said I would never do a car-chase movie because I wanted to be taken seriously as a filmmaker. Now that I'm in my early 30s, I figured I've done that. I just wanted to have fun." Car movies also touch...
...AUTO-MOTION PICTURES ALSO REFLECT newer media. Car films are today's video games. And vice versa. Virtual rides like the Grand Theft Auto games (including Vice City) and the Gran Turismo series have sat on best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that...
...2F2F Singleton makes some nifty use of computer-generated (CG) wizardry, as when the camera zips at Mach speed through the workings of a chromed-up engine. But he insists on the visual veracity of real stuntmen putting their pride and lives on the line. "You want to keep a sense of danger," he says. "If you don't have that, there's no point in doing it." Director F. Gary Gray, whose Italian Job is an update of a 1969 caper, says he strove for "a retro, fresh approach. I wanted to be able to communicate the danger...