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Paid In Full (2002 Film)
''Paid in Full'' is a 2002 American crime drama film directed by Charles Stone III. The characters Ace (Wood Harris), Mitch (Mekhi Phifer), and Rico (Cam'ron), are fictionally based on the 1980s Harlem drug dealers Azie Faison, Azie "AZ" Faison, Rich Porter, and Alpo Martinez. The title of the film is borrowed from the Paid in Full (album), 1987 album and Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim song), song by Eric B. & Rakim. Plot Ace is a young man living with his mom and sister in the Harlem ghetto working a dead-end job at a dry cleaning shop. His sister Dora’s boyfriend, Calvin, is a successful cocaine dealer while Ace's close friend Mitch is a flashy, popular drug dealer. Despite both of them promising a life of easy money, expensive cars and women, Ace decides to live a law-abiding life. While at work, Ace finds some cocaine in one of his customers’ pants. The customer, Lulu, is a cocaine supplier who lets Ace keep the drug. When Calvin gets arrested on drug charges, Ace runs int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Stone III
Charles Stone III (born 1966) is an American film director. He is best known for ''Drumline (film), Drumline'' starring Nick Cannon, ''Mr. 3000'' starring Bernie Mac, and ''Paid in Full (2002 film), Paid in Full''. Stone directed the video to "Illadelph Halflife, What They Do" by The Roots, featuring the group running through many rap video clichés. Stone is the creator of the popular advertising campaign "Whassup?" for Budweiser in 1999. In October 2008, he directed a spoof of this campaign to depict his critical view of the Republican Party's eight years in the White House and to support the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. A 1984 graduate of Central High School (Philadelphia), Central High School in Philadelphia, he is the son of Louise Davis Stone and journalist and Tuskegee Airman Chuck Stone. Filmography Film * ''Drumline (film), Drumline'' (2002) * ''Paid in Full (2002 film), Paid in Full'' (2002) * ''Mr. 3000'' (2004) * ''CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story'' (2013) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miramax Films
Miramax, LLC, also known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. It was initially a leading producer and distributor of independent films until it became the first company to be acquired by The Walt Disney Company on June 30, 1993. In 2010, the leadership of Disney saw Miramax to be redundant in their directions and on December 3 sold it to Filmyard Holdings, a joint venture of Colony NorthStar, Tutor-Saliba Corporation and Qatar Investment Authority. On March 2, 2016, the company was in turn sold to the beIN Media Group, who then agreed to sell a 49% stake in the company to ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) on December 20, 2019. It was completed on April 3, 2020, and its stake in Miramax got placed under the umbrella of its film division, Paramount Pictures. History Independent era (1979–1993) The company was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Neal
Elise Demetria Neal (born March 14, 1966) is an American actress. Her big break came with three 1997 films, appearing in ''Rosewood'', '' Money Talks'' and ''Scream 2''. From 1998 to 2002, Neal starred as Yvonne Hughley in the ABC/ UPN sitcom ''The Hughleys''. Other film appearances include ''Mission to Mars'' (2000), ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005) and ''Logan'' (2017). On television, Neal also starred as Tia Jewel in the first two seasons of the UPN/The CW sitcom ''All of Us'' from 2003 to 2005. She is a three-time NAACP Image Award nominee. Early life Neal was born on March 14, 1966 in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of a nurse and a construction worker. She attended Lakeview Elementary. She was a ballet dancer and a cheerleader. She broke her left wrist in a high toss cheerleading stunt; after the bones healed, her wrist never straightened back out completely. She graduated from Overton High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. From 1984 to 1988, she attended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi McBride
Kenneth "Chi" McBride ( ; born September 23, 1961) is an American actor. He has appeared in films, where he is known primarily as a character actor, and in television, where he has had numerous starring roles. In film, he has played prominent roles including ''The Frighteners'' (1996), '' Gone in 60 Seconds'' (2000), ''I, Robot'' (2004), '' Waiting...'' (2005), ''Let's Go to Prison'' (2006), and ''Draft Day'' (2014). On television, he was high school principal Steven Harper on the series ''Boston Public'', Emerson Cod on ''Pushing Daisies'', Detective Laverne Winston on the Fox drama '' Human Target'', Detective Don Owen in the short-lived CBS crime drama '' Golden Boy'', and Captain Lou Grover in '' Hawaii Five-0''. Early life McBride was born in Chicago, Illinois, from which his stage name derives. He was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist religion and attended Shiloh Academy, now known as Chicago SDA Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school. McBride originally planned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esai Morales
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films '' Bad Boys'' with Sean Penn and '' La Bamba'' with Lou Diamond Phillips (1987). His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series '' American Family'', the Showtime series '' Resurrection Blvd.'' (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on '' NYPD Blue'' (2001–2004), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series '' Caprica'' (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series ''Ozark'' (2017) and as the DC Comics villain Deathstroke / Slade Wilson in the superhero series ''Titans'' (2018). Morales will appear as the main antagonist in the 2023 spy action film '' Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One'' opposite Tom Cruise, a role which he will reprise in '' Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two'' in 2024. Early life Of Puerto Rican descent, Morales was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Esai Morales Sr., a welder, and Iris Margarita ( nà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Carroll (actor)
Kevin Carroll (born 6 September 1969) is an American actor, best known for his role as John Murphy in the HBO television series '' The Leftovers''. Career Most recently, he appeared as Alton Williams on the FX series '' Snowfall'' and as the "Sinnerman," the main antagonist in season three of the FOX series ''Lucifer''. In 2018, he appeared in the Facebook Watch series '' Sacred Lies'' and in the feature film ''Blindspotting ''Blindspotting'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written by, produced by and starring Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. Carlos López Estrada directs while Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh A ...''. Filmography Film Television References External links * Living people American male television actors 21st-century American male actors Place of birth missing (living people) 1969 births {{US-screen-actor-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington D
Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough ** Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Washington, Wisconsin (other) * Fort Washington (disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric B
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''EirÃkr'' (or ''ErÃkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* aina(z)'', meaning "one, alone, unique", ''as in the form'' ''Æ∆inrikr'' explicitly, but it could also be from ''* aiwa(z)'' "everlasting, eternity", as in the Gothic form '' Euric''. The second element ''- rÃkr'' stems either from Proto-Germanic ''* rÃks'' "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic '' reiks'') or the therefrom derived ''* rÃkijaz'' "kingly, powerful, rich, prince"; from the common Proto-Indo-European root * h₃rḗǵs. The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, autocrat" or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". ''Eric'' used in the sense of a proper noun meaning "one ruler" may be the origin of '' Eriksgata'', and if so it would have meant "one ruler's journey". The tour was the medieval Swedish king's journey, when newly elected, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paid In Full (Eric B
Paid in Full may refer to: Music * Paid in Full Entertainment, a record label * Paid in Full (album), ''Paid in Full'' (album), a 1987 hip-hop album by Eric B. & Rakim ** Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim song), "Paid in Full" (Eric B. & Rakim song), a 1987 song from the above album * Paid in Full (Sonata Arctica song), "Paid in Full" (Sonata Arctica song), a 2007 metal song by Sonata Arctica from the album ''Unia'' * Paid in Full (soundtrack), ''Paid in Full'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2002 film Film and theatre * ''Paid in Full'' (play), a 1908 play by Eugene Walter (playwright), Eugene Walter ** Paid in Full (1919 film), ''Paid in Full'' (1919 film), a 1919 film based on the 1908 play * Paid in Full (1914 film), ''Paid in Full'' (1914 film), a lost 1914 silent film drama * Paid in Full (1950 film), ''Paid in Full'' (1950 film), directed by William Dieterle * Paid in Full (2002 film), ''Paid in Full'' (2002 film), directed by Charles Stone III Other * In law and accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paid In Full (album)
''Paid in Full'' is the debut album of American hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on July 7, 1987, by Island-subsidiary label 4th & B'way Records. The duo recorded the album at hip hop producer Marley Marl's home studio and Power Play Studios in New York City, following Rakim's response to Eric B.'s search for a rapper to complement his disc jockey work in 1985. The album peaked at number fifty-eight on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, number eight on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and produced five singles: " Eric B. Is President", "I Ain't No Joke", " I Know You Got Soul", "Move the Crowd", and " Paid in Full". ''Paid in Full'' is credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip hop. Rakim's rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. The album's heavy sampling by Eric B. became influential in hip hop production. The record has sold over a million copies and the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpo Martinez
Alberto Geddis Martinez, better known as Alpo Martinez, Abraham G. Rodriquez (witness protection), or more simply as Alpo or Po (June 8, 1966 – October 31, 2021) was an American drug dealer from Harlem, New York City of Puerto Rican descent. Martinez rose to prominence in the mid–1980s. In addition to New York, Martinez expanded his drug trade to other cities, notably Washington, D.C. Biography Martinez started selling drugs at 13 years old in the East Harlem section of New York. In 1985, he met West Side Harlem drug dealer Azie Faison, Martinez started to move up the chain of drug dealers in Harlem and eventually became one of the biggest drug dealers in the city. Martinez later moved to Washington, D.C. to expand operations where he quickly became involved in the city's underworld and elevated his drug activities. He met Wayne 'Silk' Perry, a notorious gangster and D.C. enforcer, who would later become his bodyguard and hitman. Arrest On November 7, 1991, Martinez was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Porter
Richard Porter (July 26, 1965January 3, 1990), better known as Rich Porter, was an Afro-American drug dealer who rose to prominence in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the crack era in the mid–1980s. Porter was described by the police as being a "mid-level crack dealer" who "sold about $50 thousand worth of crack a week". The 2002 film '' Paid in Full'' was based on Rich and his partners Azie Faison and Alpo Martinez. Life Born Richard Porter in the Harlem section of New York City, Porter was the oldest of three children born to Velma Porter. Porter began selling drugs at the age of 12, rising through the ranks of the drug trade in Harlem. He became known for his flamboyant and high-profile lifestyle. He was rumored to have never worn the same outfit twice and that he owned over a dozen luxury vehicles that he kept in a garage in Manhattan during the height of his career as a drug dealer. Death Rich Porter was murdered on January 3, 1990, and his body was found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
