Movie Score Card

August, 1991

Since he scored as a baaad Mobster in New Jack City,Wesley Snipes, 29, is fast becoming a household name. He's now on screen in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, in the role of "an architect married to an African-American woman but in love with this white girl. It's not programed as a statement," he notes; "it's about people being influenced by stereotypes."A Florida native who now lives in New York, Snipes has been trained as an actor since he was 11. He portrays a paraplegic underg...

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