March 5, 2010
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But generally Hawke’s character reminds the viewer of his turn in Fuqua’s Training Day from nine years ago. There he played Jake — a young, relatively idealistic up and comer opposite an Oscar-winning Denzel Washington’s corrupt veteran. It’s not that tough to think of Sal as Jake a decade later, a little bit wiser, a little bit more worn down by the system.
Gere’s performance is about as understated as it gets, but his best scenes are the ones he shares with the prostitute (Shannon Kane) he regularly visits. There’s something more there than just a business relationship, but when even a hint of healthy emotion or normalcy bubbles to the surface the two characters don’t know how to deal with it. Meanwhile, Cheadle’s gradual realization that his life has become more about being a criminal than a cop works mostly because of the actor’s slow-burn performance.
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March 5, 2010
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) – Prosecutors in Washington state have dropped prostitution charges against a bikini barista accused of selling more than coffee at an espresso stand.
The Daily Herald reports that Everett Municipal Court Judge Timothy O’Dell approved a deal between Everett prosecutors and the 21-year-old Kirkland woman that would drop the charges if she promised to stay out of trouble for two years.
If she fails, she could face prosecution in municipal court for violating the adult entertainment ordinance.
The woman also agreed to testify against four other Grab-n-Go baristas charged last year with prostitution and violating city ordinances. They were accused of charging customers for touching certain body parts and for stripping down while fixing drinks.
Similar plea deals are expected for all but one who has indicated she plans to go to trial.
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March 5, 2010
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Director Antoine Fuqua returns to the genre of his greatest success, “Training Day,” after a series of disappointing follow-ups like “King Arthur” and “Shooter.” But without Denzel Washington’s galvanizing performance in a larger-than-life role, the material feels at the same time thin and heavy-handed. It isn’t enough that the cop’s wife is pregnant. She has to be pregnant with twins and getting sick from the mold in their old, over-crowded house. Another cop has to literally wash literal blood off his hands. The cops and the bad guys both communicate primarily by grunts, insults, profanity, and meaningful stares. “There’s no such thing as right or wrong,” says a character at the beginning of the film, “Only righter and wronger.” Well, if there’s such a thing as gooder and badder, this movie falls into the second category.
Parents should know that this film has constant crime-related peril and violence including shoot-outs and brutal, graphic beatings, characters injured and killed, disturbing images, constant extremely strong language, characters use and deal in drugs, drinking, smoking, sexual references and explicit sexual situations including prostitution and sexual slavery, and nudity, including strippers.
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