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‘Miami Vice’ Ascends to New Heights
Jamie Foxx stars
in feature film
Miami's Casablanca allure, the
undercover cops and the appeal
of the form er television series
have been enhanced with "Miami
Vice," a large-scale feature film,
starring Academy Award winner
Jam ie Foxx as Ricardo Tubbs and
Colin Farrell as Sonny Crockett.
Universal Pictures will release the
picture nationw ide on Friday,
July 28th.
Miami Vice liberates w hat isadult,
dangerous and seductive about
working deep undercover, espe
cially when Crockett and Tubbs go
on their ow n with no backup. They
find themselves with a case that
pushes them to the edge where
identity and fabrication become
blurred, where cop and player be
come one.
Foxx’s Ricardo Tubbs is suave
sound, charism atic and flirta
tious. However, he finds him self
in dangerous territory when he
gets rom antically entangled with
Isabella, the beautiful Chinese-
Cuban business partner o f the
arms and drugs trafficker he is
investigating. Isabella is played
by the Chinese actress Gong Li,
best known for her starring role in
"M em oirs of a G eisha.”
Hip Hop
Lit 101
Rap weaves
into sci-fi
Hailing from the Bronx. New
York, hip-hop cultures rap artist
Nocturne breaks new ground
with his first graphic science
fantasy book, "Darkness Bleeds
A Million Suns”. Nocturne’s
book follows several success
ful books recently released by
well-known hip-hop and rap art
ists.
Nocturne uses musically rich
prose and poetry in a nonlinear
journey through the 21st and
22nd centuries, accompanied by
gripping photos and drawings
inspired by hip-hop, video
games, film. Eastern philosophy,
mystical architecture and con
temporary street life.
He joins literary hip-hop and
rap artists Chuck D of Public
Enemy, rap artist-activist Sister
Souljah and the founder of the
hip-hop click the W uTangClan
group, “The RZA,” in turning to
the medi urn of writing to express
their creative vision.
Ronn Davis, who produces
hip-hop rap groups No False
Lyricists (NFL). God Aku and
G o ld e n
C h ild ,
sa y s,
"N octurne’s book is ’dope.’
It’s like one continuous rap
w ith m any science fiction
movies in it. W ow!”
Organized in “tapestries" in
stead of in chapters, “Darkness
Bleeds A Million Suns” pre
sents syncopated concepts in
prose, poetry, photographs and
illustrations to convey operatic
perspectives on the human con
dition. Nocturne says, "Every
time I write a rhyme I push it to
de-limit, cerebral motivator my
soul doesn’t limit." He draws a
comparison between today' s rap
art and bebop jazz in the late
1950s. "B ack th en , John
Coltrane. Charles Mingus and
Sun Rabroke musical limits with
new musical vocabularies and
took ‘Giant Steps' (Coltrane)
that expanded the entire jazz
arena."
By day, Nocturne works in
Manhattan as a financial editor.
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Ambassador of the Bay
On the heels of his recent suc
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50th Birthdays Invitation
appreciate this stage of our life,
organizers said, “We are 50 years
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Entertainment will be provided revisit the many places and events
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The “celebration” is an event to
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knowledge the folks who cared
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significant difference to the youth
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"The messages that we want to
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