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Article: EUGENE KANE; IN MY OPINION; Kids can use help toward positive goals
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2007
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Some kids dream of being an astronaut.
Or maybe a scientist or a doctor. A lawyer, a firefighter. God
forbid, even a journalist.
But Nino Brown?
That was my reaction after reading the first day of the Journal
Sentinel's series on "crime crews," about a convicted killer who
admitted he started dreaming of a career in crime after watching the
1991 flick "New Jack City."
The film, one of the first hip-hop crime films out of Hollywood,
starred Wesley Snipes as the infamous Nino Brown. The character was
said to be based on a real-life thug who came up with the beginnings
of the crack cocaine trade.
Dionny Reynolds, the convict in reporter Derrick Nunnally's
series, is serving a 117-year sentence, ...