He studies popular culture with a perceptive eye. Since his boyhood in Jackson, Miss., where he passed many hot summer days at the movies, Alexander has been fascinated with Hollywood. His church office includes a DVD player. If you're in a hotel room or stuck in the airport, pop one in. It relaxes me.
Film is reflective of the ideology of society.
I watch to be entertained, sure, and I also watch to see underlying attitudes. He talks to young people about what's popular, what moves them. He admits to being a bit removed from the hip-hop crowd. Still, rap's cultural force can't be ignored. Dysfunction describes former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth, convicted last fall of plotting to kill his pregnant girlfriend.