Marc Levin
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by Whiteboyz (1999)
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Tarantino also developed a grudge against Spike Lee who took such exception to the Black characters calling each other “nigger” in “Pulp Fiction” that he even instructed one of his interns to count up the number of times the word was used: 38. Lee complained in the press that Tarantino aspired to be an “honorary black man” after the fashion of Danny Hoch’s role in “Whiteboyz”, a dark comedy about a farm boy who sees himself as an aspiring gangsta.
Stuck in a mental ward with the usual psychiatric suspects -- the obsessive-compulsive mouse (David Patrick Kelly), the Miss Havisham-ish old lady (Celia Weston), the germophobe (''Slam'' poet Saul Williams) -- none of whom have any problem with the notion that their new neighbor really is an extraterrestrial, Prot becomes their leader.
While Mary McCormack ("The Big Tease," "Private Parts") doesn't get enough time to do much with her somewhat disgruntled wife character and Alfre Woodard ("Mumford," "Down in the Delta") and other performers inhabit characters that seem likely to have been fleshed out more in the novel, David Patrick Kelly ("Songcatcher," "Dreamscape"), Saul Williams ("One True Thing," "Slam") and Celia Weston ("Hearts in Atlantis," "Hanging Up") are all good as some of the mental patients Prot encounters.
Saul Williams ("Slam") is Ernie, a patient with a phobia of air contaminants who always wears a surgical mask and latex gloves, almost normal behavior in these times.