“I don’t think anybody’s ever talked about it as articulately and clearly. I understood it better having heard [rappers] talk about it…I mean, they really get it and they understand it, and that’s a great thing. They’ve been very supportive all these years. I think they’ve helped us tremendously.”

Al Pacino, Crediting Rappers with Scarface’s Enduring Popularity | Vulture (via popculturebrain)

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You Don’t Know Jack; The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian  HBO, Saturday night at 9 …The film captures his zeal, his self-righteousness and also the creepy tawdriness of his right-to-die practice: the macabre, ghastly art works he painted himself, sometimes with his own blood; his shabby apartment; his rickety DIY death contraptions; and the battered van he used as a death chamber. Even Margo is shocked by how makeshift and crude the process is, exclaiming after the first assisted suicide in his van, “I guess somehow I just thought the whole thing would be nicer.” Unpopular causes rarely find the most persuasive champions, and sometimes only the least eloquent are willing to speak out. “You Don’t Know Jack” takes a considered and insightful look at the frail, elderly man whose embrace of death gave him a reason to live. NYTimes 

You Don’t Know Jack; The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian 

HBO, Saturday night at 9

…The film captures his zeal, his self-righteousness and also the creepy tawdriness of his right-to-die practice: the macabre, ghastly art works he painted himself, sometimes with his own blood; his shabby apartment; his rickety DIY death contraptions; and the battered van he used as a death chamber. Even Margo is shocked by how makeshift and crude the process is, exclaiming after the first assisted suicide in his van, “I guess somehow I just thought the whole thing would be nicer.”

Unpopular causes rarely find the most persuasive champions, and sometimes only the least eloquent are willing to speak out. “You Don’t Know Jack” takes a considered and insightful look at the frail, elderly man whose embrace of death gave him a reason to live.

NYTimes