The full trailer for "American Gangster"Synopsis:American Gangster is a 2007 crime film written by Steve Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Manhattan who smuggled the drug into the country in the coffins of American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Crowe portrays Richie Roberts, a detective who brings down Lucas's drug empire. Filming was done in New York, and American Gangster is slated for a November 2, 2007 release.Cast:Denzel Washington as Frank LucasRussell Crowe as Detective Richie RobertsCuba Gooding Jr. as Nicky BarnesJosh BrolinCommon as the brother of Frank LucasT.I. as the nephew of Frank LucasAnthony Hamilton as a singer[3]RZAChiwetel EjioforTed LevineJohn OrtizYul VazquezCarla GuginoKaDee StricklandOfficial site: http://www.americangangster.net/
New trailer for "American Gangster" (In theaters November 2 Synopsis:American Gangster is a 2007 crime film written by Steve Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Manhattan who smuggled the drug into the country in the coffins of American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Crowe portrays Richie Roberts, a detective who brings down Lucas's drug empire. Filming was done in New York, and American Gangster is slated for a November 2, 2007 release.Cast:Denzel Washington as Frank LucasRussell Crowe as Detective Richie RobertsCuba Gooding Jr. as Nicky BarnesJosh BrolinCommon as the brother of Frank LucasT.I. as the nephew of Frank LucasAnthony Hamilton as a singer[3]RZAChiwetel EjioforTed LevineJohn OrtizYul VazquezCarla GuginoKaDee StricklandOfficial site: http://www.americangangster.net/
Stay tuned for exclusive interviews with the cast of American Gangsta on www.BlackTree.TVAMERICAN GANGSTERScheduled for release: November 2, 2007Genre: Drama Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin,Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, John Hawkes,Ted Levine, RZA, T.I., Yul VazquezDirected by: Ridley ScottWriter: Steve ZaillianProduced by: Brian GrazerExecutive Producers: Nick Pileggi, Steve Zaillian, Branko Lustig,Karen Kehela Sherwood, James Whitaker,Michael CostiganDenzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.Washington (Training Day) and Crowe (Gladiator) lead a spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars—including Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, T.I., RZA and John Ortiz—in this blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind) from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List).Birth NameDenzel Hayes Washington Jr.NicknameDHeight6' 0½" (1.84 m)Mini BiographyTall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug while appearing in student drama productions and upon graduation he moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater. He left A.C.T. after only 1 year to seek work as an actor. With his acting versatility and powerful sexual presence, he had no difficulty finding work in numerous television productions. He made his first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981) with George Segal. Through the 1980s he worked in both movies and television and was chosen for the plum role of Dr. Chandler in NBC's hit medical series "St. Elsewhere" (1982), a role that he would play for 6 years. In 1989 he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989).Through the 1990s Denzel co-starred in such big budget productions as The Pelican Brief (1993); Philadelphia (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); The Preacher's Wife (1996); and Courage Under Fire (1996) - a role for which he was paid $10 million. He lives quietly in Los Angeles with his wife Pauletta and their 4 children. Cerebral and meticulous in his film work, he made his debut as a director in 2002 with Antwone Fisher (2002).Born in New Zealand, Russell has made his home in Australia since he was a small child. The son of movie set caterers, Russell got the acting bug early in life. Beginning as a child star on a local Australian TV show, Russell's first big break came with two films the first, Romper Stomper (1992), gained him a name throughout the film community in Australia and the neighboring countries. The second, The Sum of Us (1994), helped put him on the American map, so to speak. Sharon Stone heard of him from Romper Stomper (1992) and wanted him for her film, The Quick and the Dead (1995). But filming on The Sum of Us (1994) had already begun. Sharon is reported to have held up shooting until she had her gunslinger-Crowe, for her film.
▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄ ▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄Don't player hate on me, player hate somebody elseYo, yo yo I'm a gangsterWhere my dogs at?Bark with me if you're my dogYo yo yo, I'm going, Im gonna give a shout out to all the player haters(I don't like player haters)If you're a player hater don't player, player hate on me(player hate somebody else)I'm a gangster, I'm straight up(straight up gangster, dude)Grrr I'm steaming mad. grrrI'm a gangster, I'm a straight up GThe gangster life is the life for meShooting people by day, selling drugs by nightBeing a gangster is hella tight.I walk around town with a stark erection, then gave your mom a yeast infectionI saw the police man and I punched him in the eyeTo serve and protect, WHAT A LIE!I also don't like white people, you shouldn't tooAnd don't get me started about the jewsI'm a gangsterGrrr I'm madI'm a gangsterMy rhymes are badI'm a gangsterI'm iced out like a freezerI'm a gangsterI don't listen to WeezerI dropped out of school at the age of 3 (why?)Coz all the teachers tried to player hate on me.(oh)My rhymes are cool, just like doing cocaineMy rhymes are hot, like a burning flameSisqo is my homie, he's a ganster tooMe and Sisqo are the leaders of the gangster crewI like to be in jail and he likes to sing and dance(yay)Some say we're the perfect matchSTEP OFF! STEP BACK! STEP AWAAAY! STEP BACK! DON'T STEP FORWARD! STEP BACK! DON'T STEP FORWARDS! STEP BACK! BACKWARDS, DON'T STEP TO ME! DO NOT STEP TO MEEE! grrI'm giving a shout out to my homies in cell block 8Being in jail sucks cuz you always have to masturbateExcept when a Jewish person goes to jail all my homies cheerThey will make mince meat out of his rearBen Peddy helped me make the gangster beat to this songI shot him in the face coz he looked at me wrongI'm a gangsterI drop bombs like HiroshimaI'm a gangsterBitch suck on my wiener!I'm a gangsterI drive a cool carI'm a gangsterI smoke weed in a cigarYo my gangster flowYo, yo yo yoNobody thought I'd blow up like a firestone tire-Oh there's no beat left(gunshots)Die, Die you Santa Clause dieno i don't wanna do acapellai like to slap bitchesi like to slap hoes...▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄
http://www.blacktree.tv/American Gangster,The Return of SuperflyFrank Lucas, once the city's biggest, baddest heroin kingpin the original O.G. in chinchilla, now seems like just a very likable guy. But don't be fooled. * By Mark Jacobson * Published Aug 14, 2000During the early seventies, when for a sable-coat-wearing, Superfly-strutting instant of urban time he was perhaps the biggest heroin dealer in Harlem, Frank Lucas would sit at the corner of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue in a beat-up Chevrolet he called Nellybelle. Then living in a suite at the Regency Hotel with 100 custom-made, multi-hued suits in the closet, Lucas owned several cars. He had a Rolls, a Mercedes, a Corvette Sting Ray, and a 427 muscle job he'd once topped out at 160 mph near Exit 16E of the Jersey Turnpike, scaring himself so silly that he gave the car to his brother's wife just to get it out of his sight.But for "spying," Nellybelle was best."Who'd think I'd be in a shit $300 car like that?" asks Lucas, who claims he'd clear up to $1 million a day selling dope on 116th Street."One-sixteenth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenue was mine. I bought it. I ran it. I owned it," Lucas says. "When something is yours, you've got to be Johnny-on-the-spot, ready to take it to the top. So I'd sit in Nellybelle by the Roman Garden Bar, cap pulled down, with a fake beard, dark glasses, long wig . . . I'd be up beside people dealing my stuff, and no one knew who I was . . ."It was a matter of control, and trust. As the leader of the heroin-dealing ring called the Country Boys, Lucas, older brother to Ezell, Vernon Lee, John Paul, Larry, and Leevan Lucas, was known for restricting his operation to blood relatives and others from his rural North Carolina area hometown. This was because, Lucas says, in his down-home creak of a voice, "a country boy, he ain't hip . . . he's not used to big cars, fancy ladies, and diamond rings. He'll be loyal to you. A country boy, you can give him any amount of money. His wife and kids might be hungry, and he'll never touch your stuff until he checks with you. City boys ain't like that. A city boy will take your last dime, look you in the face, and swear he ain't got it . . . You don't want a city boy -- the sonofabitch is just no good."Back in the early seventies, there were many "brands" of dope in Harlem. Tru Blu, Mean Machine, Could Be Fatal, Dick Down, Boody, Cooley High, Capone, Ding Dong, Fuck Me, Fuck You, Nice, Nice to Be Nice, Oh -- Can't Get Enough of That Funky Stuff, Tragic Magic, Gerber, The Judge, 32, 32-20, O.D., Correct, Official Correct, Past Due, Payback, Revenge, Green Tape, Red Tape, Rush, Swear to God, PraisePraisePraise, KillKillKill, Killer 1, Killer 2, KKK, Good Pussy, Taster's Choice, Harlem Hijack, Joint, Insured for Life, and Insured for Death were only a few of the brand names rubber-stamped onto cellophane bags. But none sold like Frank Lucas's Blue Magic."That's because with Blue Magic, you could get 10 percent purity," Lucas asserts. "Any other, if you got 5 percent, you were doing good. We put it out there at four in the afternoon, when the cops changed shifts. That gave you a couple of hours before those lazy bastards got down there. My buyers, though, you could set your watch by them. By four o'clock, we had enough niggers in the street to make a Tarzan movie. They had to reroute the bus on Eighth Avenue. Call the Transit Department if it's not so. By nine o'clock, I ain't got a fucking gram. Everything is gone. Sold . . . and I got myself a million dollars."I'd sit there in Nellybelle and watch the money roll in," says Frank Lucas of those near-forgotten days when Abe Beame lay his pint-size head upon the pillow at Gracie Mansion. "And no one even knew it was me. I was a shadow. A ghost . . . what we call down home a haint . . . That was me, the Haint of Harlem."
