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Veronica Chambers' Debut,
By Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style (Paperback)
The soundtrack had Usher's debut on it, even though it failed to feature Janet Jackson's single "Again" which was played in the movie. It was a time for debuts and this film had great casting, Janet as Justice and Tupac as Lucky. And don't forget the strong showing of Regina King, then a very young lady, now an actress respected by all the world, especially for her more recent parts such as the spurned backup singer in RAY, the Ray Charles Story and she was Will Smith's wife in ENEMY OF THE STATE. She shines in Poetic Justice as Iesha, the concerned friend of Justice with a boyfriend who can't get it up and boy is she annoyed! But the best debut of all was made by the young writer Veronica Chambers who wrote this backstage, warts and all gossip bok full of the inspirational activities of young John Singleton, the director of POETIC JUSTICE.
Chambers had access where no others dared to go. She was an editor at PREMIERE magazine and I guess as one of the few black editors in 1992 she got picked to go to the shoot and hang out with Singleton, Tupac, Janet and even august old Maya Angelou (who wrote the poems that Janet's character is supposed to be writing and reciting). Chambers later, of course, became one of our best loved writers of children's books, young adult novels, and even books for adults, but this must have been one of her favorites because, well, it was like her first baby. When you read this book now it's sad of course, for Tupac is dead, Janet is in entertainment limbo thanks to white America's outrage over her Super Bowl Show, and Singleton, well, some say he has wasted away his talent making inferior movies. As Veronica Chambers reminds us, he was the youngest director (not just the youngest black director, the youngest director of any race) ever to be nominated for an Oscar. Spike Lee writes an affectionate foreword to Chambers' book and as a kind of bonus you get the whole screenplay Singleton wrote. He was trying to balance out the "male world" of his previous effort BOYZ N THE HOOD with a "female-centered" movie that would revolve all around a young woman who has lost everything but her will to live again.
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it's April 1991. An unknown director named John Singleton is sitting in an editing room, cutting an equally unknown film: Boyz N the Hood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Los Angeles, John Singleton, Maya Angelou, Janet Jackson, South Central, Where Lucky, Tupac Shakur, Simi Valley, Tyra Ferrell, Steve Nicolaides, Robi Reed, Aunt May, Don Wilkerson, Joe Torry, Aunt June, Regina King, Last Poets, New York, Rodney King, Ice Cube, Spike Lee, Stephanie Allain, Where Iesha, Aunt April, Jessie's Salon New!
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it's April 1991. An unknown director named John Singleton is sitting in an editing room, cutting an equally unknown film: Boyz N the Hood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unit publicist, black actress, sound guy, hair show Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, John Singleton, Maya Angelou, Janet Jackson, South Central, Where Lucky, Tupac Shakur, Simi Valley, Tyra Ferrell, Steve Nicolaides, Robi Reed, Aunt May, Don Wilkerson, Joe Torry, Aunt June, Regina King, Last Poets, New York, Rodney King, Ice Cube, Spike Lee, Stephanie Allain, Where Iesha, Aunt April, Jessie's Salon New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Poetic Justice: A collection of poems, prose, and songs consisting of topics about everyday life and ordinary people. by Jerry Jackson on 9 pages
- Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou on page 20, page 54, and page 95
- Two Trains Running by August Wilson on page 14, and page 15
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton on page 59
- The House of Bernarda Alba - Acting Edition by in a new version by Emily Mann Federico GarcĂa Lorca on page 54
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- Mama's Girl by Veronica Chambers in Back Matter
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