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Article: 'CRASH' Director Brakes for No Man; Paul Haggis puts the pedal to the metal on prejudice
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- Jewish Exponent
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- May 5, 2005
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Elkin, Michael
Jewish Exponent
05-05-2005
Can't we all just get along?
Uh ... apparently not.
Rodney King's thorny crown of a question haunts still: Jews, Christians,
Muslims, whites, blacks ... apparently, all we need is more than love;
maybe a "Crash" course in mutual understanding.
Pupils, eyes front: That bleak message on the blackboard is scripted by a
master, who knows that without true compassion and conviction, bigotry is
still society's big-time problem.
Who better to attack directly the million-dollar babble of bias than the
screenwriter of "Million Dollar Baby"? And Paul Haggis, whose Oscar-winning
feature boxed the ears off the competition this past February, is in
fighting form in ...