Snipes

BUTLER, Ga. -- The cool, busy lobby of the Taylor County courthouse features a bulletin board, a Dr Pepper vending machine and two framed rosters honoring World War II veterans. It is easy to spot the slight difference in wording that justifies displaying two plaques instead of one. This list says "Whites," and that list says "Colored." County officials explain that the segregated plaques continue to hang because state law says no publicly owned memorial dedicated to veterans of the United States - or of the Confederate States of America - shall be relocated, removed, concealed, etc., etc. "Fifty-dash-three-dash-one, subparagraph B," recites Edward N. Davis, the county attorney.

"The Fugitive" wouldn't have been nearly as good a movie if it had concentrated on the pursuer rather than the pursued.That's the problem with "U.S. Marshals," which brings back Tommy Lee Jones as the coldly efficient Sam Gerard. Five years ago, he was tracking Harrison Ford as a doctor wrongly accused of murdering his wife. Today, he's tracking Wesley Snipes as a former marine accused -- it takes a while to find out if rightly or wrongly -- of murdering three federal agents."The Fugitive" was a great film, as much because of the dynamic between Jones and Ford as for the incredible stunts and special effects.

Handicapping took on a new dimension at Pimlico yesterday. Form, class and pace became secondary. Finding a betting window with a live person and more importantly, a live machine behind it was the day's most important variant.A blown transformer knocked out power to most of the facility before The Sir Barton Stakes. Suddenly finding a working teller became as challenging as putting together a winning super trifecta."It's OK with me. This place just saved me a ton," said Buddy Snipes, a convenience store operator from Fayetteville, N.C.Snipes was waiting for the Preakness to bring out the heavy iron.

After stunning critics and moviegoers with his Oscar-winning "Leaving Las Vegas," Mike Figgis has chosen to dive into a shallower end of the pool, although he is clearly still fascinated with people in extreme situations. Rather than the neon seediness of the American desert, "One Night Stand" is set in Manhattan's swankiest precincts; rather than hell-bent for self-destruction, his protagonists are attractive, upscale and relatively untroubled.As a good-looking snapshot that captures the emotional tone of a romantic turning point, "One Night Stand" bears Figgis' signature fascination with the dark sides of good people.

President Clinton gets to show himself in a light that has nothing to do with Paula Jones, Whitewater or even gimpy knees, tonight on VH1."Rising Sun" (8 p.m.-10 p.m., WBFF, Channel 45) -- Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes are detectives assigned to figure out how a young woman turned up dead under particularly odd circumstances inside the headquarters of a large Japanese corporation. Connery's the old pro called in because he understands the Japanese and their ways, while Snipes is the no-nonsense cop who simply wants to solve the case -- and isn't sure Connery's character has the same goal.

LOS ANGELES -- In a groundswell, new films are moving away from exploitative stereotypes of African-Americans and offering diverse, positive and inspiring visions of black American life.They are all the work of African-American filmmakers who are bringing increasingly innovative movies to television and cinema.From Spike Lee's treatment of the Million Man March to DEF Pictures' production of "Fast Girls," the true story of a national championship track team made up of girls who grew up in a housing project, American cinema is in the midst of a new wave of African-American filmmaking.

MY LOCAL THEATER was full the other night when I went to see "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," the new drag-queen film making the rounds.The crowd of mostly white, apparently heterosexual guys and gals seemed to be having a whale of a time watching three brawny straight actors pretending to be men pretending to be women.It isn't a bad film -- one of the hundreds turned out by Hollywood each year designed to allow people to escape for 90 or so unthreatening minutes without having their brains too rigorously taxed.

Washington -- Well, he admits, there were some on his team that weren't too crazy about him playing another drug dealer."But I wanted to act," says Wesley Snipes, who went ahead and committed to "Sugar Hill," the complex "Godfather"-like drama of a dealer's withdrawal and redemption.Snipes, in person, is a lean, wily presence, whose eyes are even more intensely riveting than they are on screen. Rare among movie stars, he's not a disappointment in the flesh; he's no little man with a big head, plated teeth, bad breath and bad clothes that only a close-up camera could love.

In what New York City officials are calling a first, the city police department and Mayor's Film Office have paved the way for Columbia Pictures' big-budget "Money Train" to shoot in Times Square on New Year's Eve.Approximately 300 extras will be joining the 300,000-plus throng of revelers and multitude of news and broadcast crews expected tomorrow night at one of the world's most celebrated NewYear's Eve gatherings.The shoot won't involve the film's stars, Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, but will capture footage for a key chase sequence at the end of the film when Mr. Snipes, a good-guy decoy cop, chases his adversaries on a motorcycle.

Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson get the critical notice, but it's cool cat Wesley Snipes who rules the box office.Not that he's hurt for raves. Since breaking out three years ago in "New Jack City," Mr. Snipes has taken on consistently larger and more varied roles. Figure in his looks and charisma, and he's what the movie industry likes to call "bankable."He's also to the 1990s what Sidney Poitier was two decades ago: The African-American star of his generation.As Mr. Snipes walks through the door, the first thing you notice is his shaved head.

On July 27, 2009, ROBERT L. COLEMAN. Survived by lifetime companion, Sarah L. Perkins; brother James E. Coleman (Dorothy); two sisters, Willie Rose Snipes (GA), Juanita Coleman-Tyler and a host of other family and friends. Family will receive friends at the WYLIE FUNERAL HOMES, P.A., OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road on Friday from 5 to 7 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Coleman will lie in state at the Union Baptist Church, 1219 Druid Hill Avenue, 11 A.M Wake, 12 P.M Funeral. Entombment following.

BUTLER, Ga. -- The cool, busy lobby of the Taylor County courthouse features a bulletin board, a Dr Pepper vending machine and two framed rosters honoring World War II veterans. It is easy to spot the slight difference in wording that justifies displaying two plaques instead of one. This list says "Whites," and that list says "Colored." County officials explain that the segregated plaques continue to hang because state law says no publicly owned memorial dedicated to veterans of the United States - or of the Confederate States of America - shall be relocated, removed, concealed, etc., etc. "Fifty-dash-three-dash-one, subparagraph B," recites Edward N. Davis, the county attorney.

When Wesley Snipes declined the television reprise of the half-vampire superhero he played in three respectable B-movies, fan message boards predicted Blade: The Series would be the worst sci-fi show in action-adventure history. Which would, of course, be impossible, considering that history includes such cable and syndicated monsterpieces as Earth: Final Conflict, TekWar, Andromeda and Total Recall 2070. Lost in the uproar over the loss of Snipes was the good news: David S. Goyer, who wrote all three Blade theatricals, and directed the last one, signed on to shepherd the franchise's transition to Spike, where it will be the man-boy netlet's first scripted drama.

ST. LOUIS - This city got a small but real taste of Hollywood in 2000 when one of its favorite sons, rapper Nelly, snagged a key role in the little indie flick Snipes. At the St. Louis premiere, Nelly rolled up in a blue Bentley and strolled down the red carpet escorting his mother, Rhonda Mack. Other red carpet arrivals included several St. Louis Rams, including Marshall Faulk, and the Snipes cast and crew. Turns out, you ain't seen nothing yet. Last week, the red carpet was rolled out again for the local premiere of The Longest Yard.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hoping to avoid another presidential election fiasco, Broward County officials scrambled yesterday to replace tens of thousands of missing absentee ballots, reduce long waits for early voting and shore up a telephone system deluged with calls from angry voters. A day after acknowledging that as many as 58,000 absentee ballots have not reached voters who requested them, elections supervisor Brenda Snipes decided to mail new ones. She will pay extra for overnight delivery for those sent outside Broward in hopes of ensuring voters can return them before Tuesday's deadline.

Oliver Stone's The Doors is reaching a fever-dream climax, with Jim Morrison/Val Kilmer about to screech something about his mother amid the throb of "The End," when the bottom third of the screen explodes in a lime-green flash. Talk about your bad trips: It's an on-screen promo for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. OK, so maybe that's what you get for watching The Doors on Bravo in the first place. Bravo used to skim the cream of the art-film coffee, but that was before the network got bought by NBC. Now it's home to Celebrity Poker, West Wing reruns, Queer Eye and Inside the Actor's Studio.

Despite the appearance of rap superstar Nelly in the small but crucial role of a hip-hop phenom named Prolifik, Snipes plays like a moldy oldie. Although Nelly is top-billed in the ads, the real lead is Sam Jones III as Erik, a high school student known as Philadelphia's top "sniper" - the term for kids who blanket buildings and street poles with ads for rap acts. The shortening of that term to "snipes" may refer to Wesley Snipes, since Erik's best friend, an aspiring rap artist himself, wants to be called Nino Brown, in homage to Snipes' role in New Jack City.

`Blade II' PG-13 115 minutes * * Blade II (New Line, 2002) is so witless it wins most of its laughs from having Czech characters spout obscenities that get translated into English subtitles. How do you say "bomb" in Czech? The sequel to the 1998 horror hit once again stars Wesley Snipes in action-figure mode as the half-man, half-vampire from the Marvel comic book. In this chapter of his saga, he joins forces with his enemies from the Vampire Nation to vanquish the Reapers, extra-super blood-suckers who feed on humans and vampires alike.

Handicapping took on a new dimension at Pimlico yesterday. Form, class and pace became secondary. Finding a betting window with a live person and more importantly, a live machine behind it was the day's most important variant.A blown transformer knocked out power to most of the facility before The Sir Barton Stakes. Suddenly finding a working teller became as challenging as putting together a winning super trifecta."It's OK with me. This place just saved me a ton," said Buddy Snipes, a convenience store operator from Fayetteville, N.C.Snipes was waiting for the Preakness to bring out the heavy iron.

"The Fugitive" wouldn't have been nearly as good a movie if it had concentrated on the pursuer rather than the pursued.That's the problem with "U.S. Marshals," which brings back Tommy Lee Jones as the coldly efficient Sam Gerard. Five years ago, he was tracking Harrison Ford as a doctor wrongly accused of murdering his wife. Today, he's tracking Wesley Snipes as a former marine accused -- it takes a while to find out if rightly or wrongly -- of murdering three federal agents."The Fugitive" was a great film, as much because of the dynamic between Jones and Ford as for the incredible stunts and special effects.