Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace, in which a black cop played by Samuel L. Jackson, terrorizes an interracial couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) who become his neighbors, is already sparking ...

When Lakeview Terrace hit theaters in 2008, many viewers were struck by its unsettling portrayal of a Los Angeles police officer terrorizing his new neighbors — a seemingly extreme fictional scenario.

Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed reality-TV producer from ...