Hart's War, set in a World War II German prison camp, recycles Stalag 17, A Soldier's Story, A Few Good Men, The Great Escape and even a little of Hogan's Heroes to produce, well, leftovers. Bruce Willis glowers manfully as Col. William McNamara, the ranking American officer at the camp, run by Col. Werner Visser (Marcel Iures). Enter hotshot lawyer Lt. Tommy Hart, played by Colin Farrell, a first-rate young actor in need of better material. The script, by Billy Ray and Terry George, believes it's conveying deep thoughts about racism; Nazi bigotry is compared to the American variety when redneck soldiers balk at sharing stalag space with black officer Lt. Lincoln Scott (an outstanding Terrence Howard), a flyboy hero who is framed for the murder of a white officer. Hart, with his own moral compromises to hide, defends Scott in a POW court. Director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear) is merely arranging cliches in new patterns until the surprise ending blows enough pro-military fervor up the audience's ass to make Colin Powell call a halt.

“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"