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Brooklyn’s Finest does consistently entertain despite its many problems. Fuqua, to his credit, maintains an intense air of dread from top to bottom, making an at least tonally captivating thriller out of Martin’s bumpy script.  Life is a box of stress for three Brooklyn, New York members of the fuzz: Tango (Cheadle), a deep-undercover veteran hoping to earn a detective’s badge; Sal (Hawke), a desperate father of four unable to upgrade his family into a nicer home on his existing salary; and the aforementioned Eddie, a soon-to-be retiree who loves a prostitute and hates mentoring rookie cops. Their storylines quietly intersect here and there—Hawke walking in the background of a Gere scene, for example— but never interfere with each other.

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… Brooklyn’s Finest” – a deliberately factitious title – follows three New York cops who apparently have no connection to each other.
Not at first. But as you might expect, their paths eventually cross in a series of unexpected, exceedingly violent encounters capped by one of the wimpiest, least satisfying finales in the genre’s history.
One cop named Eddie (a cool Richard Gere) sets the tone of this movie by placing the barrel of his six-shooter in his mouth for a dry run at a suicide attempt. (See Mel Gibson’s definitive version in “Lethal Weapon.”)
He has only a few days to go before he retires, which would automatically be a death sentence for him in a regular formula cop thriller.
“Brooklyn’s Finest” avoids that cliché, then employs the one where cop Eddie’s girlfriend is a hot prostitute (Sharon Kane).

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… Every hour, there is more coming out, and it’s becoming incredibly clear that he needs to either step aside, resign, or at the very least, turn the day-to-day operations over to the lieutenant governor,” said state Sen. James Seward, R-Milford.
But another local Republican legislator said if Paterson left, it would cause even more problems.
“Unless something else breaks that we are not aware of, I don’t think he should be impeached,” said Assemblyman David Townsend, R-Sylvan Beach. “There is enough chaos here now, and we don’t need more chaos by bringing in a guy who wasn’t elected to anything.”
Townsend was referring to Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, who was appointed by the governor. Paterson himself had been elected lieutenant governor but was elevated to the governor’s office when Eliot Spitzer resigned two years ago this month over a prostitution scandal.

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His prospects for a full-fledged comeback may be slim, considering the transgressions that led him to resign as governor in 2008. After becoming chief executive of New York and swearing to enforce its laws, Spitzer was found to be a perpetrator, a patron of an illegal prostitution ring who was wiring money to shell corporations to pay for his habit. It was hypocrisy on a scale that was hard to fathom, as if Eliot Ness had been busted for peddling gin from his apartment.

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You have heard “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. Maybe on a rap radio station, or a pop one. It’s been played on World Wrestling Entertainment. It’s in the promos for the “Sex and the City” sequel. Alicia and Jay-Z performed it during the World Series, as the Yankees won, linking it with America’s pastime and America’s greatest city. That song, and by extension Jay-Z, is as American as apple pie.
And yet, a careful listen reveals that this song is hardly blissful pop. Jay-Z references Crips, cooking crack and stashing drugs, mentions Ecstasy and Ambien, includes a lament for a girl who may be a prostitute, and drops a few N-bombs. It’s hardly the soundtrack for a ride to soccer practice in the minivan, but somehow, it has become that.

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Don Cheadle Won’t Let His Daughters Watch Him In ‘Brooklyn’s Finest!’
Sorry Ayana Ta and Imani! Your daddy Don Cheadle says you aren’t old enough to watch R-rated movies yet!
Good girls do NOT watch R rated movies says actor daddy Don Cheadle!
We ran into Don on at his Mar. 2 premiere of his new action drama Brooklyn’s Finest (rated R) and he told us he keeps a very close eye on the movies his two daughters watch!
So, are Ayana Tai, 14, and Imani, 12, allowed to watch their dad star in the film, which features a lot of violence  and explicit prostitution? “Hell no!” he told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. “No way, my daughters … they’re not of age to watch a movie like this.”  Aww, what a protective dad!
Don wants to teach his daughter valuable life lessons. “[I want them] to be good people,” he says — ”I think they’ve kind of learned that. And, I think if by the time somebody’s 15 and they don’t know that, it’s a little too late,” he continues.

See the full article from “Hollywood Life (blog)”

Book on Spitzer’s Downfall Sets Off Angry Replies
Published: March 3, 2010
ALBANY — Nearly two years ago, a disconsolate Eliot Spitzer opened the door of his Fifth Avenue apartment and greeted his senior adviser and old friend, Lloyd Constantine, with these words: “Welcome to a Greek tragedy.”
It was 6:57 a.m. on March 10, 2008, a day that would most likely be the worst of Mr. Spitzer’s life, when his public and private lives would simultaneously implode amid a prostitution scandal. A few minutes later, a somewhat stunned Mr. Constantine found himself being grilled by Mr. Spitzer’s wife, Silda, who asked, “Did you know about this?”
Next week, Mr. Constantine’s book, “Journal of the Plague Year,” lands in bookstores, the first insider account of the collapse of Mr. Spitzer’s governorship. The book, an advance copy of which was provided to The New York Times, is a reminder of how quickly political history is being rewritten in New York, arriving as Mr. Spitzer’s onetime lieutenant governor, Gov. David A. Paterson, is himself mired in scandal.

See the full article from “New York Times”