Movies
As if to concede that there’s no escape from stereotyped portrayals of African Americans in mainstream movies, Darin Scott lards his debut feature, “Caught Up,” with chronic criminals, cartoon Rastafarians, bad attitudes, bad cops, tosses in a gay villain from Central Casting and concludes with a character so transparently racist that it’s all got to be tongue in cheek.
Feb. 27, 1998
California
The body of a woman found in a riverbed at the Green Valley Falls campground near Descanso on Wednesday has been identified as Cynda Lee Sherman, 41, of La Mesa.
April 12, 1985
If you are thirsting for an evening’s light entertainment, be forewarned: “One False Move” (Park Theatre) opens with the massacre of an innocent family in South-Central L.A. by three drug criminals.
June 12, 1992
If you are thirsting for an evening’s light entertainment, be forewarned: “One False Move” (Cineplex Odeon Fairfax) opens with the massacre of an innocent family in South-Central L.A. by three drug criminals.
May 8, 1992
Spike Lee says sex, not race, will generate a lot of heat in his new film, “Mo’ Better Blues.”
Feb. 26, 1990
Almost sent directly to TV, this bleakly amusing and truly moving film by director Carl Franklin proved to be the sleeper of 1992.
Aug. 16, 1998
March 27, 1994
Cynda Williams moved to New York last year to try to strike up a career in either acting or singing--”whichever I could get into first.”
Nov. 3, 1990
THE FILM: “Mo’ Better Blues” THE SETUP: Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is a jazz trumpeter whose two girlfriends, schoolteacher Indigo Downes (Joie Lee) and aspiring singer Clarke Betancourt (Cynda Williams) find that though they may frequently hold the man, they seldom hold his self-absorbed soul.
Aug. 15, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
For the final non-student exhibitions of the school year, Ventura College’s two art galleries are hosting work as potent and challenging as any seen here all year.
April 21, 1994