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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTH’he Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 29, 1997
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Boot Camp Clik forgettable rap CD
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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:
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☆☆☆ Good;
☆☆ Fair;
☆ Why?;
No stars given - A
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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
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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.”
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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. ... You got to
see where you belong. You’re
going to be a dominator or a
weakling.”
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