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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Jagged Edge by LiveForeverAnon Jagged Edge. Directors like to talk about playing the audience like a piano, about making movies that are efficient machines for assaulting our emotions. "Jagged Edge" is a movie like that, a murder thriller that dangles one clue after another before our eyes, daring us to decide who committed the murder. The machinery in this movie is so efficient that we don't know the answer until the very last shot - and I'll be getting back to that last shot in a moment. The film stars Jeff Bridges as a powerful San Francisco publisher whose wife is brutally murdered in their isolated oceanside home. After an investigation reveals that he stood to inherit his wife's entire fortune, he is arrested and charged with the murder. Glenn Close plays his defense attorney. At first, she insists she has retired from courtroom cases, but then Bridges convinces her that he is innocent. And before long, she is also convinced that they are in love. The Close character stands at the center of the film. Is she defending the man she loves against the unjust charges against him? Or is she defending a cold-blooded killer, who might murder her just as he murdered his wife? There are moments in "Jagged Edge" when either of these possibilities seems convincing, but most of the time we just don't know. There's a lot of evidence on both sides. Close's courtroom opponent is the assistant DA (Peter Coyote). They worked together a few years ago on a case where, she believes, he concealed evidence in order to win a conviction. Is he concealing evidence this time? There comes a time when we think he may be. And by then the film's tension is so tightly wound that we, and Close, don't know what to believe. "Jagged Edge" is supremely effective at what it sets out to do - toy with the audience. It's another effective thriller from Richard Marquand, who made "Eye of the Needle." The performances are good and the plot is watertight, as a whodunit must be. I have only one quarrel with the film, but it's a fairly substantial one. The movie only wants to keep us guessing. The characters are developed only in ways intended to string us along. Any behavior is possible if it will further the plot. There's no sense of reality beneath the gleaming surface. Even that would be all right, if the movie didn't reveal the identity of the real killer in the final shot. Here's my theory: In a movie that exists only to tantalize us with clues and deceptive evidence, we shouldn't find out who the killer was - because that should be what we're arguing about as we leave the theater. Once the killer is unmasked, his crime reflects on everything else we know about his character, and that's more realism than you really need in a well-oiled machine. Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Is A New Jagged Edge Album on The Way? Yall….It looks like the VERZUZ battle between Jagged Edge and 112 has spawned new music. Jagged Edge hopped on social media to announced that they are releasing a new album. The post debuted the artwork for their new album titled “ A Jagged Love Story “. An official release date was not given but according to the post, the album will drop sometime next month. What do you think Nosey Neighbors? Are you looking forward to new music from Jagged Edge? Head on over to my IG story @heymsjessica and vote in my People’s Poll. It's coming. Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. Jagged Edge Announces New Album Following Verzuz TV Battle. If you were in this week’s Verzuz battle between Jagged Edge and 112, then you may have heard by now that the Jagged Edge boyband will be releasing an album in the future. Jagged Edge is an Atlanta based boy band signed to Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings. The boyband is mostly known for their hit singles, “Let’s Get Married,” “Where the Party At,” “Promise,” and “Walked Out of Heaven.” What a good time for R&B. If you found yourself fan-girling over the sound of this boyband during the Verzuz TV battle, you’re in for good news. The boyband has announced that they have an album, “Coming” soon. The group officially announced the forthcoming album on Instagram after posting the cover art to the album which is titled, A Jagged Love Story . The post was captioned, “It’s coming.” The album is expected to run over 22 tracks and should be released by next month. Are you ready for this boyband’s return? Jagged Edge May Be Unsung , but They Haven’t Stopped Singing Yet. Twins Brian and Brandon Casey, along with their friends Richard Wingo and Kyle Norman, made up the 1990s R&B group Jagged Edge. Unlike boy groups like New Edition or Jodeci, the individual members didn’t become household names or branch out into solo careers, but their sound was so unusual that even traditional R&B balladeers like Luther Vandross referred to Jagged Edge as one of their favorite groups. “He came on 106th & Park and surprised us once,” Brandon told The Root about the relationship they had with Vandross. The group will premiere their story on TV One’s Unsung this Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT after the season opener profiling Wyclef Jean at 9 p.m. The group’s mix of influences—from traditional R&B to singing in the church choir to the twins’ mother, who was a jazz singer, and Wingo’s father, who owned adult clubs in Atlanta—helped to create a sexy R&B sound that would fill a niche and help the group reel in a new kind of swag for bad-boy groups. They could sing romantic ballads like “Promise” and “Gotta Be,” pragmatic wedding songs like “Let’s Get Married” and up- tempo party thumpers like “Where the Party At”—all while wearing floor-length fur coats, Timberlands and do-rags. With eight albums as a group, four of which went double platinum or gold, they helped to define the Atlanta R&B sound for Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Records, which was distributed by Columbia. At Columbia they were paired with Destiny’s Child, touring together and being managed by Mathew Knowles for a short period. “Columbia was smart in putting both of our marketing plans together,” said Brian. “We would have split posters—them on one side and us on the other.” But when the twins got involved romantically with LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, Knowles wasn’t happy. Tensions mounted, and not long after, there were new Destiny’s Child members replacing Luckett and Roberson. Jagged Edge was discovered by Xscape member Kandi Burruss-Tucker, who went to Tri-Cities High School in East Point, Ga., with Richard Wingo. They sang in the choir together and took acting classes together. After graduation, the group produced a demo, and Wingo wanted Burruss-Tucker’s advice on how they could improve it. But Burruss-Tucker kept the demo. “She kept that demo, and I’ll tell you, she fell in love with it. She took it straight to Jermaine, and history was written,” said Wingo. Jermaine Dupri thought that with their hood sensibilities, he could make them into the male version of Xscape. The partnership of Dupri and the group resulted in a string of hits, including “Let’s Get Married” and “Where the Party At.” When Dupri remixed “Let’s Get Married,” it had the distinction of being a No. 1 hit song twice. But success started going to their head. A tight-knit friendship began to be filled with fights and reckless behavior. Wingo was drinking five nights a week. The group rolled joints at press conferences. There were fly cars, fly girls and DUIs. They went into full rock-star mode, without the forgiveness rock stars receive. “Rock stars get away with that kind of stuff. Our behavior at first was something J.D. [Dupri] loved,” Brian remembers. “’Cause that’s what he would always say: These dudes are like rock stars. But he was like, once you put the record out, you gotta do a little better than that. Some of the more prestigious people in the game were like, ‘You can’t be like this.’” The label enrolled the group in anger management, but on the last day they got into a fight. Despite their recklessness, they still managed to make music. And they did it their way, fighting for their image and their sound. The group wrote every song on all their albums and did all of the production. By the time the albums got to Dupri, Brandon says, they were already finished. “We fought everybody to be Jagged Edge,” Brandon says. “We would literally fight down to the outfit. The funny thing about these things is, we always knew we had our finger on the pulse. “We came along at the end of an era where you had to be either Jodeci or Boyz II Men to be seen,” he adds. “Our label was more known for making artists like Boyz II Men than Jodeci.