To Sleep With Anger
November 16, 1990 | During the opening seconds of To Sleep With Anger, a middle-aged, sturdily-built black man, all decked out in his Sunday best, sits on a cane chair near…
Ned Beatty on “Hear My Song”
February 16, 1992 | For Britishers of a certain age, the onstage performances and offstage misadventures of tenor Josef Locke are the stuff of legend. For director Peter Chelsom and co-screenwriter…
Hear My Song
February 21, 1992 | With a strut to its walk and a lilt to its talk, and a crafty bit of whimsy up its sleeve, Hear My Song is a…
Fresh
August 31, 1994 | At the start of Fresh, the drop-dead brilliant film by first-time writer-director Boaz Yakin, the title character is introduced as he makes the early-morning rounds of…
Rapid Fire
August 21, 1992 | Brandon Lee carries on the family tradition of martial-arts mayhem and bodacious butt-kicking in Rapid Fire, the first starring vehicle for the handsome son of the late,…
Brandon Lee on “Rapid Fire”
August 16, 1992 | Like father, like son. Like dynamite. Brandon Lee, son of the late, great Bruce Lee, is following in his father’s ferocious footsteps as the two-fisted star of…
Patrick Swayze: Back in Houston
December 19, 1988 | Patrick Swayze returned home last week, every inch the conquering hero after the box-office smash of Dirty Dancing and the chart-busting hit of ''She’s Like the Wind.''…
Patrick Swayze on “Road House”
May 14, 1989 | Patrick Swayze was on last weekend, flashing smiles and pumping hands, cracking jokes and fielding questions, bounding from one interview to the next at New York’s…
Patrick Swayze in “To Wong Foo”
September 3, 1995 | During his high school years in Houston, Texas native Patrick Swayze excelled in sports. But he also excelled in dance -- his mother, Patsy Swayze, was and…
Sidney Poitier
February 7, 1988 | Sidney Poitier seems remarkably composed, even serene, for a man who has little more than an hour to catch a plane. His limousine is threading slowly, ever…