![]() Moreover, with a reported $10 million production budget it won't even be the profitable cash cow most horror flicks can hang their hats on.Īnother new entry, “Hitman: Agent 47,” shot blanks in fourth with just $8.2 million. ![]() That's a disappointing debut considering its predecessor opened to $18 million a little under three years ago. Three new films entered multiplexes on Friday and the top performer was “Sinister 2.” The Gramercy Pictures flick took third with $10.6 million. Globally it's found $438.5 million and will look for a boost when opening in China on Sept. 2 was Paramount Pictures's “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” The fifth installment in the long running franchise earned another $11.7 million for $157.7 million. With little real competition on the horizon, “Compton” could remain no. took in another $26.7 million (down a slightly more than expected 55.5%) for an incredible $111.4 million in just 10 days. ![]() Gary Gray's biopic about the rise of seminal rap group N.W.A. The studio is flying high with “Straight Outta Compton” ruling the box office for the second weekend in a row.į. “God is saying, ‘Vicky, it’s time.The late summer slowdown has arrived at America's movie theaters, but don't tell that to Universal Pictures. “I realize now that the poetry has to get out there,” she said. She also intends to get her poetry published and to read her work more often in public. In the language of poetry, those words now seem to offer an ironic foreshadowing of her son’s death.īut her 7-year-old son, Lijuan, still lives, and Whiteside’s girlfriend is expecting to give birth to his baby boy, who also will be named Lionel.Īfter the funeral, Lindsey plans to hold a press conference to discuss violence and her son’s death. Lindsey often recites her own poems in public, but she does not know whether she will be able to read those lines today.īefore Whiteside was slain, Lindsey told a Times reporter that she was motivated to write poetry because “my boys are black boys in South-Central L.A. Those words will be read today at the funeral. I protected you for as long as I could, but you just had to hang out in the ‘hood.” ![]() I couldn’t go to sleep at night until I was sure you were all right. Baby, it was just because I wanted you to live. “Lionel, you know how mad I get, because of the stupid things you’d do you felt I was being too overprotective. “I felt like I didn’t deserve this after all the things I’ve been doing in the community.” Lindsey said she was shocked by the news, overcome by anger. Words often flow easily onto the page when Lindsey is creating a poem. It is something else to write about the death of one’s own child. Those words described the pain we all feel upon hearing about tragic, violent deaths. In fact, she has an entire volume of poems she has written for others’ funerals that she calls “Last Writes.” But those were poems about other people’s losses. She once wrote a poem about a passenger who was shot to death after stepping off her bus and landing in an altercation with police. She drives her Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus from the Los Angeles County Jail near Downtown on a route to Redondo Beach, and she often scratches notes for her poems on the back of passenger transfer pads during breaks. Life in tough Los Angeles neighborhoods has been a constant theme in Lindsey’s poetry. Said Lindsey: “I don’t feel that he was in a gang, but sometimes you don’t know your own kid.” She took a deep breath and added: “He was a boy in the ‘hood.” Police have made no arrests, and they say they are still investigating the shooting. No one will say whether the shooting was gang-related. A car carrying four men turned down the street he was on and someone in the car opened fire, striking Whiteside in the chest and leg, police said. 9, several blocks away from the high school. Whiteside was shot to death about 9:45 p.m. She urged him to “plan for a positive future” in a poem she penned when Whiteside graduated from Compton High School last year.īut her most precious gifts-her words-were not enough to save her son. She even wrote inspirational poetry to her son. To combat that violence, Lindsey took an active role in community organizations such as Mothers Against Gangs in Communities.
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