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6B ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTH’he Charlotte Post Thursday, May 29, 1997 Spt/f/os Boot Camp Clik forgettable rap CD Continued from SB Boot Canm Clik For The People Buckshot, Dru Ha and Steele, executive pro ducers Priority/Duck Down 1/2 This is a typical rap record ing, Get a bunch of different rap artists together, give them a trendy name, offer up a bunch of mediocre songs with profanity and don’t talk about anything important and you are done. That doesn’t mean it will not sell, on the contrary, it may do millions. But in six months it will be forgotten. Boot Camp who? Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Classic; ☆☆☆☆ Excellent; ☆☆☆ Good; ☆☆ Fair; ☆ Why?; No stars given - A mess THE EXCELSIOR 921 Beatties Ford Rd. ■ 334-5709 -Tue.-Sat. 5pm, Sun 6pm WEEKLY FEATURES: •Tue. 6pm “nSH NIGHT” $5, DISCO followmg 9pm •Wed. R&R •Fri. &Sat. DISCO • Sunday • UVE MUSIC or DISCO i ji I Book upcoming on study of ‘street code’ 1$ Foim s used'tires' Tuesday & Wednesday Special Buy 3 used tires & get 1 Free ff20$65l5 #2(W015 02557515 IT Continued from SB readiness to fight. That image can be achieved through cloth ing, facial looks, language or stride. “Something as deceptively simple as carrying a radio says, ‘Look, I’m brave enough to carry this radio down the street,’” Anderson said. In a world of fragile self esteem, the code means wear ing the right clothes - Tommy Hilfiger jackets, ’Timberland boots and expensive sneakers — and being willing to fight for them. Defending personal property is a reality in a place where someone can gain respect by taking a peer’s Spielberg sequel a hit Continued from SB locations in North America. Peter Bart, editor in chief of Variety magazine, said the extraordinary results are “dan gerously seductive” because they give filmmakers the illu sion they can recoup their costs in one weekend. “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” cost an estimated $75 million to make. “I think that this will raise the bar on Hollywood expecta tions that if you make a pic ture like this you can get it back in one weekend,” he said Sunday. “It could be both delightful and dangerous to think about.” Bart said few filmmakers have the talent to make such blockbuster hits. Bart also noted that upcom ing films like the $200 million “Titanic” and “Speed 2” don’t lend themselves to merchan dising and theme park applica tions like “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.” “It’s got to be an industry more than a movie. That’s the trick,” he said. “Universal (Pictures) could easily make $1 billion profit from this.” “ ■ Tlie ,' CcMedf ^Zfm prized possessions. “Even to walk down the street with certain women is to put yourself on the line,” Anderson said, explaining that a boy who flirts with someone else’s girl friend has offended the other youth, inviting trouble. “A lot of the violence happens just like that, over a girl, and a girl over a boy.” 'The code is old as mankind, he said, but exacerbated in the inner city by poverty, guns, drugs and hopelessness. After Anderson first pub lished his observations about the street in The Atlantic monthly three years ago, columnist George Will praised him as “a superb reporter of real life.” His book, “The Code of the Street,” goes to the pub lisher this summer. Margery Turner, a top researcher at the Urban Institute in Washington, cred ited Anderson with helping urban policy analysts, general ly more familiar with statisti cal methods, recognize the value of ethnography - observ ing and reporting on a culture. “It contributes to understand ing the complexity and many dimensions of what we think of as distressed inner-city com munities. It helps us under stand better the kinds of barri ers we have to overcome if we’re going to open opportunity for all residents in those neigh borhoods,” said Ms. 'Turner. One of the neighborhoods Anderson got to know the past 3 1/2 years was Hawthorne, a hard-luck community of row homes and dreary public hous ing towers. Rodney Brewer, who runs a little league, said even good kids have to fight in Hawthorne. “You’ve got to join a certain gang just to survive,” he said. “There’s a lot of good kids, once their family gets into a fight, you join in. You got to go down with your family. ... 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