Entertainment & Arts
Oscar-nominated director John Singleton, best known for the film “Boyz N the Hood,” has been hospitalized in intensive care after suffering a stroke on Wednesday, his family said.
April 20, 2019
Movies
Court papers show that “Boyz N the Hood” director John Singleton is in a coma at a Los Angeles hospital eight days after suffering a major stroke.
April 25, 2019
After suffering a major stroke, director John Singleton remains on life-support, his publicist told The Times on Monday morning, but his family followed up shortly afterward with word that they would be taking him off it Monday.
April 29, 2019
Music
“Boyz n the Hood” wasn’t the first John Singleton film I saw in theaters — that distinction goes to his 1993 romance “Poetic Justice” — but it’s the one that’s stayed with me the longest.
24 Frames
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Oct. 19, 2011
Real Estate
The home of the late director of “Boyz n the Hood” and “2 Fast 2 Furious” is on the market for $1.8 million.
Oct. 21, 2020
Image
The filmmaker’s movies were hard and unflinching in their portrayal of Black Los Angeles but really what they are about is our fundamental human enterprise: the grace of feeling.
March 17, 2021
The hillside home takes in city and mountain views from a turf backyard and balcony.
Opinion
The late John Singleton’s debut movie “Boyz n the Hood” set a template for many of the black films that followed its 1991 release, establishing a creed among inner city moviemakers of unapologetic rawness and realism.
May 5, 2019
Television
Director John Singleton (“Boyz n the Hood,” “2 Fast 2 Furious”) was on his way to the set of the Janet Jackson-Tupac Shakur romantic drama “Poetic Justice” on the afternoon of April 29, 1992, when a Ventura County jury in Simi Valley acquitted four LAPD officers in the beating of motorist Rodney G.
April 18, 2017