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...cast is also dotted with the standard ensemble of excessively colorful characters, played by Guest’s resident troupe of oddities. The standout is once again Fred Willard, whose offensively boorish announcer in 2000??s Best in Show amassed a fair share of critical praise. Here he plays the equally ignorant manager of Hi-Class Productions, who constantly relives the days when he supposedly hosted a game show called “Wha’ Happened? Willard never fails to produce a chuckle every time he attempts to incorporate the show’s titular catchphrase into...
...rapper 50 Cent were any more hardcore, he’d be dead. Not only is his debut album titled Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, this former crack dealer (born Curtis Jackson) was shot nine times in 2000??once in the jaw and once in the hip, in front of his grandmother’s house, no less. As he sings on “Many Men (Wish Death),” “Many men / Many, many, many men / Wish death upon...
Making no excuses, Mozambique’s astonishing GDP growth rate of 10 percent per year over five years has persisted in the face of February 2000??s devastating floods. The president has privatized 900 of 1,200 state firms, tamed inflation into single digits, avoided foreign debt and encouraged foreign investment...
Anyone hoping for more than a recapitulation of 2000??s stunning Oui, however, will probably be disappointed this time around. The Sea And Cake fan knows quite well how the band can play, what they play and how perfectly they play it. But at this point, one would almost rather hear the band fail in the midst of an experimental disaster than stagnate in One Bedroom’s complacency. —Roger Rossier
...easy answers to fundamental questions. In “Right Ta” Common asks, “Hip-hop is changin’/Y’all want me to stay the same?” With this album, Common shows that he has already changed since 2000??s Like Water for Chocolate, and will likely continue to break boundaries. —Brian D. Goldstein