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...poor, unsuspecting reader. Here you are, perusing a perfectly respectable magazine, floating down a river of Americana, and you dock at a story on Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...
Despite all this unappetizing knowledge (which, by the way, has been in general circulation since 1982), young American males are lighting up at a record pace. Since the mid-'90s, cigar consumption has risen 70 percent - and that's just your average, corner-store cigar. When you get into the luxury stuff, we're talking about a 250 percent rise. That's a heck of a lot of imported tobacco, and a lot of smelly suits...
...Puerto Rican Day, officers seemed partly paranoid and partly petulant--some fearful of appearing insensitive as a community celebrated its parade, and some angry that city residents don't realize that police shootings have actually declined in the '90s even as cops have managed to reduce crime. "The police department is in a catch-22 situation," says Patrick Lynch, president of the patrolmen's union. "If we control the problems out there, we get blamed for being aggressive. If we don't act fast, we get attacked. It's paralyzing." The paralysis may be part of the reason the murder...
Picking up where it left off five years ago, Bon Jovi delivers a piece of vintage '90s pop-metal, as straightforward as a stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike. The band's trove of clever hooks and jolly bombast once made it a cool alternative for kids suffering from heavy-metal fatigue. But pop taste, like a teen's attention span, never lasts. Crush tries to update itself with Older, a tune about honoring your roots, but what it really, really wants is to re-live the days when jeans were tight and hair was big. Fine, but haven...
...this year, O'Neal's tenure with the Lakers mimicked his movie career: the Lakers were swept out of the playoffs two years running. But this year they have a new coach: Phil Jackson, the man who helped guide Jordan and his Chicago Bulls to six titles in the '90s...