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Cuba Gooding Jr. to Turn Himself in to NYPD for Allegedly Groping a Woman at a Bar
Cuba Gooding Jr., best remembered of late for portraying and partying like O.J. Simpson, will surrender to the NYPD on Thursday, following allegations that he groped a woman over the weekend. NBC News reports Gooding’s rep confirmed the actor will be turning himself in to the department’s sex crimes unit less than a week after the…
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2019 Tribeca Film Festival: Free Screening of Boyz n the Hood Added to Honor the Legacy of John Singleton
From South Central to Tribeca, both U.S. coasts are coming together to honor late director John Singleton with Boyz n the Hood, the movie that ushered in his historic career. Singleton died at the age of 51 on April 29, 2019, after suffering a stroke on April 17. To honor Singleton, on Friday, May 3,…
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’70s Soul Singer Cuba Gooding Sr. Found Dead in Los Angeles
Cuba Gooding Sr., the singer who had popular hits in the 1970s with the group the Main Ingredient, was found dead in a car in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Gooding, who is the father of actors Cuba Gooding Jr. and Omar Gooding and who would have turned…
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25 Years Later, the Power and Brilliance of Boyz n the Hood Still Resonate
“In any type of writing program, they say to write about what you know,” John Singleton told Walter Mosley during a conversation following a 25th-anniversary screening of his classic film debut, Boyz n the Hood, in New York in June. “When you’re a certain age, you only have a limited amount of life experience. I…