“He really liked it,” she told Singleton. She went on to say how much she loved the film, and that her boyfriend did as well. “You could tell he did time.” The man, whose eyes were red and watery, did not open his mouth. “He was an OG, a gangster dude,” Singleton told me during a 2006 interview I did for a Boyz n the Hood oral history originally published in King magazine. A woman and her boyfriend then approached the filmmaker. Wearing a hat that read “South Central LA,” Singleton thanked the audience for their support. At one point in the evening, he arrived at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the theater he frequented as a kid. Along with a few USC friends and some cast members, Singleton stopped at local theaters to gauge the audience’s reaction to the movie. On the night Boyz n the Hood opened in theaters in July 1991, the film’s 23-year-old writer-director John Singleton rented a limousine and rode around his native Los Angeles.
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