Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: ( comparing Fred Hampton to Prince Hamlet)
"For he was likely, had he been put on To have proved most royal. ."
Speaking of royalty, y'all should see Denzel Washington in "American Gangster", in which he plays a big-time, really BAD Harlem drug lord. It's a terrific film by Ridley Scott, with Russell Crowe as the virtuous cop, but the question is, is Washington -- a consummate smoothie -- convincing as a ruthless sociopath?
BobW
Murdered by the a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, in collusion with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
For he was likely, had he been put on To have proved most royal. . . .
As LBJ once said: If you want to know what U.S. foreign policy abroad is like, look at U.S. policy at home.
Carrol
___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk