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...toting sidekick of Owen’s cheatin’ man. PRINCE RAKEEMMany rappers, from Ice-T to 50 Cent to Snoop Dogg have tried to make the jump to the silver screen, but RZA is trying to build his acting career slowly with character roles. He quoted his agent as saying, “I don’t want you to be the black guy in the movie, I want you to be the guy in the movie who happens to be black.”Unsurprisingly enough for a man who has already accomplished so much...
...food anyway. You can always treat a disease, but you can never rebuild that trust again. FM: Did Wes Craven personally contact you when Universal decided to make a motion picture out of your book, “Serpent and the Rainbow”? WD: What happened was my agent sold the book to a producer who brought the project to Universal. Wes Craven, who ended up directing it, is a very thoughtful man. But he just made another horror film. It was very discouraging. Something that you should really ask me is how does one get here. Students...
...natural disasters, as well as either the voters of Iraq (or, alternately, the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who hopes to thwart them). TIME's own Matthew Cooper, who has been at the center of the criminal investigation into alleged White House leaks of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, suggested that Bill Gates may be worthy of Person of the Year award for his work as a philanthropist. And, ever the White House correspondent, he also suggested that President Bush could be considered for a second year in a row- although this time as ?the incredible shrinking president...
...lawmen badly needed contacts among Washington's Muslims to help them check out leads and alert them to anything out of the ordinary, but they were getting nowhere in setting up those ties because "there was so much fear and animosity toward the FBI in that community," says an agent...
Distrust remains. The collaboration between the FBI and the imam "has not been popular in certain wings," concedes Michael Rolince, the Washington field office's special agent in charge of counterterrorism. The bureau has come under fire from hard-line pundits, who charge that it is reaching out to American Muslim leaders sympathetic to extremists. "They are providing an endorsement of these individuals, which enhances their credibility," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, a conservative think tank in Philadelphia. (The FBI insists it works only with moderates like Magid.) But some ADAMS members are still uncomfortable about...