Word: tell
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...into questions you can cup in your hand: Are you better off now? Why not the best? Whom do you trust? Candidates unspool speeches on education and health care and economic policy, and then they trip over questions about where the Confederate flag should fly and whether they can tell if a person is gay and "How off-beat is your heart anyway, Senator?" There are still nine months of ads and polls and policy papers to go, but there may never be a better time than these next few weeks to sit right up close to the small stage...
...will these writers get to tell their stories? A recent controversy on UPN's family sitcom Moesha suggests that defining "the black experience" is thorny even on a show with nine black writers. As the title character (played by Brandy) moved on to college, the network sought to add gritty elements to make the squeaky-clean comedy more "relevant" by considering storylines about sex and gangs. One of the show's creators, Vida Spears, resisted the changes and was forced to leave...
...precocious 19 she was in Paris studying film, yet this San Francisco native took more than a decade to get working on her debut feature, Manny and Lo. "There's no way I could blast out of film school at 19 and tell someone, 'Hand me a million bucks and I'm going to make a work of genius,'" she says. "First I had to prove myself to myself. Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing." Krueger, now 39, toiled for indie gurus Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara, then found salvation at the Sundance lab. "They start treating you like...
After a bit, you tell D'Angelo you've got to go. You've got to get back to your peeps in New York. Of course you don't actually say the word peeps. You're not that cool...
...lawyer specializing in international law, Hart has traveled several times to Cuba, often conveying messages unofficially between Fidel Castro and the Clinton Administration; hence the pseudonym. "I wanted to tell these fictional stories," he says, "but I didn't want to jeopardize any value I could add to my messenger role." He unveiled himself last week because "people were beginning to ask questions about Blackthorn's identity. I didn't want to dissemble, so we decided to come...