Denzel Washington: ‘Clint Eastwood’s my hero’

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“Clint Eastwood’s my hero,” Denzel Washington says. “That’s the model. He’s the guy.”

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The Audacity of Oprah

Are people upset that Oprah’s jumped into the political fray? — It’s an unprecedented performance of black power in the heart of the old Confederacy. For someone who lived through the most hateful moments of the civil rights era, it’s exhilarating and hopeful — and vaguely scary in the vertigo it induces.

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A Conversation Between Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes

Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes once ruled the drug trade in Harlem. They came out of retirement to talk business. Lucas hit the ultimate Hollywood jackpot, getting Denzel Washington, no less, to play him in American Gangster.

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