![]() ![]() Other big swings include FOX's “Scream Queens,” which has been running advertisements for months already, at 9 p.m. when it'll be ready for cancellation in time for “Chicago Fire” to return? Or why not hold “Heartbreaker” for Wednesday nights when “Mysteries of Laura” runs out of episodes and then you could debut it in a slot in which critics have already learned to look away? Thus concludes my “Why does 'Heartbreaker' exist and why is NBC giving it a promising time period?” musing. where it would be compatible with “The Voice” and push “Heartbreaker” to 10 p.m. Why not move the Neil Patrick Harris variety show to 9 p.m. post-“Voice” slot on a cliche-ridden medical dramedy with no chance of success. Only NBC knows why they're wasting the 9 p.m. Remember how FOX liked young-skewing female-centric comedies? Hello John Stamos, Fred Savage and Rob Lowe as the new faces of Tuesday comedy! Remember ABC's pair of twentysomething rom-coms? Hello Muppets and Huangs and a new family focus! And NBC? Well, NBC has abandoned intentional laughs for unintentional guffaws if reactions to the trailer for “Heartbreaker” are any indication. So it's no wonder that not only are networks doing new comedies on Tuesday, but they're doing comedies with a different focus on Tuesdays. Of last season's fall Tuesday comedies, “Mindy Project” has moved on to Hulu and “New Girl” is returning at midseason and the other four are dead. That's pretty remarkable if you think about it. What's Changed: There were six half-hour comedies airing on Tuesday night at the start of last season and there are four half-hour comedies set to air on Tuesday nights this fall and there's no overlap between them. What people remember is the way he dissed Janet Jackson as a “crazy black feminist bitch.” It’s the stereotypes that stick.NBC: “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris”/”Chicago Fire” His first line in Juice is, “Good morning, grandma.” What people remember him saying is, “Don’t nobody fuck with me.” In John Singleton’s flawed but ambitious Poetic Justice, he delivers mail – a job that he hates and that keeps him from his gang – to earn enough money to rescue his daughter from her freebasing mother. In Ernest Dickerson’s Juice he went gonzo with a handgun, but not before he tried to mend some dangerously frayed family ties. A closer look at Shakur onscreen reveals an actor of subtlety and substance. Most audiences thought his films were documentaries. Never mind that Shakur began acting at age 13 (onstage in A Raisin in the Sun), that he received training in his craft at the Baltimore School for the Arts and that he could be astonishingly inventive at characterization. Shakur was praised for social realism, which is racist cant for saying that he never made a movie that didn’t have a gun in it, that didn’t ballyhoo drugs or bash women as bitches, that didn’t feature Shakur playing himself. The rap on Pac was that he made a great screen threat. Ironically, the only critical juice that Shakur ever collected on film, and that includes Poetic Justice (1993) and Above the Rim (1994), was gang related. ![]() The film is a comedy, the first in a six-film career of gritty urban dramas that began in 1992 with his bad-teen role in Juice and will end in the fall of 1997 with his bad-cop role in Gang Related, which wrapped just a week before Shakur was gunned down in a Las Vegas drive-by, on Sept. 18 at the esteemed Sundance Film Festival and features Shakur’s best and most appealing performance. Exploitation? You bet.Ĭut some slack to Gridlock’d, which premiered on Jan. Once deemed un-releasable, Bullet goes directly to video on Jan. Then there’s Bullet, a 1994 actioner with Shakur and Mr. ![]() His posthumous rap album, The Don Killuminati, is still charting books and films about his thug life and murder, at 25, are in the works and his penultimate movie, Gridlock’d, is out for the new year. ![]()
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