With John Singleton's brilliant 'Boyz N the Hood,' the filmmaker found his voice from the start
LOS ANGELES - John Singleton's filmmaking career began early, with a burst of brilliance that few saw coming, mainly because they weren't looking. It ended nearly three decades later, no less startlingly and far too soon.
His death Monday at the age of 51 coincided with the 27th anniversary of the 1992 riots that tore apart his city, one that he depicted with great love and tenderness, force and fury. Los Angeles was where Singleton attended the University of Southern California film school and where he set several of his projects, most recently the FX series "Snowfall," a snapshot of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early '80s, and "L.A. Burning," a 2017 A&E documentary about the riots that he produced. It was also, of course, the setting of his landmark 1991 first feature, "Boyz N
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