Tyger Williams

Tyger Williams hasn't slept in 25 hours and his eyelids look a little heavy. "I was wired up a while ago," he says. "I had three cups of coffee this morning. I got some NoDoze in my back pocket. I got a lot to do. I can't go to sleep for about another 12 hours." Williams, 24, hasn't adjusted time-wise from being in France, where the first film he wrote, "Menace II Society," was screened during the Cannes Film Festival. But who needs to get back on Pacific Daylight Time if you're not sleeping?

Allen and Albert Hughes, the 21-year-old twin brothers who directed this 1993 movie, along with 23-year-old screenwriter Tyger Williams, are young enough to get inside the loves of Watts gangbangers without making it seem as if we're watching something taking place on another planet. Their instincts as filmmakers override their instincts as moralizers.

Allen and Albert Hughes, the 21-year-old twin brothers who directed this 1993 movie, along with 23-year-old screenwriter Tyger Williams, are young enough to get inside the loves of Watts gangbangers without making it seem as if we're watching something taking place on another planet. Their instincts as filmmakers override their instincts as moralizers.

Tyger Williams hasn't slept in 25 hours and his eyelids look a little heavy. "I was wired up a while ago," he says. "I had three cups of coffee this morning. I got some NoDoze in my back pocket. I got a lot to do. I can't go to sleep for about another 12 hours." Williams, 24, hasn't adjusted time-wise from being in France, where the first film he wrote, "Menace II Society," was screened during the Cannes Film Festival. But who needs to get back on Pacific Daylight Time if you're not sleeping?

In the 1987 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Bravo Sunday at 10 a.m.) Maggie Smith is brilliant and heartbreaking as a desperate Irish spinster thrown into spiritual crisis. Bob Hoskins is equally fine as the man whose intentions she disastrously misreads. Allen and Albert Hughes, the 21-year-old twin brothers who directed the 1993 Menace II Society (KCAL Sunday at 6 p.m.

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Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes, the 21-year-old twin brothers who directed the youth-in-trouble movie "Menace II Society," along with 23-year-old screenwriter Tyger Williams, are young enough to get inside the lives of Watts gangbangers without making it seem as if we're watching something taking place on another planet. They aren't always able to sort out what they put on the screen. (Not the worst of faults with filmmakers; at least they have something vital to put out.

Talk about an odd couple. Allen and Albert Hughes, the 21-year-old twins who have successfully moved into the Hollywood 'hood with their hard-edged urban drama "Menace II Society," have agreed to join hands with the traditionally conservative Walt Disney Co. They are doing so under a new two-picture deal with Joe Roth's Disney-based production company Caravan Pictures, assuring them creative control over their projects.

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Relaxing on the front porch of a small house in South-Central L.A, twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes, 20, had decided to skip lunch. Dressed in baseball caps and baggy jeans worn well below the waist, the two looked more like characters in the movie "Menace to Society" than its co-directors. They surveyed with disbelief the tangle of lights, cameras and cords that surrounded them. "This is a weird business," Allen said while his brother nodded.