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...biopics loosely based on the lives of white rappers, the bar is set fairly low. (Perhaps you recall 1991's tour de force Cool as Ice, starring Vanilla Ice, Naomi Campbell and Family Ties' Michael Gross?) This is good news for EMINEM, who will enter the white-rapper bio genre with a film of his own, to start shooting later this year. CURTIS HANSON (L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys) has signed on to direct. "I saw here an opportunity to make a serious movie about the emotional struggles of contemporary adolescents in this country," says Hanson, who sees things in Slim...
...citation that accompanied the Bronze Star, Kerrey is lauded for his unit's "heroic achievement" in killing 21 Viet Cong, burning two hooches, or peasant huts, and capturing two enemy weapons. Kerrey never mentioned the medal in his official bio. As he acknowledged last week, there was nothing heroic about what really happened...
...citation that accompanied the Bronze Star, Kerrey is lauded for his unit's "heroic achievement" in killing 21 Viet Cong, burning two hooches, or peasant huts, and capturing two enemy weapons. Kerrey never mentioned the medal in his official bio. As he acknowledged last week, there was nothing heroic about what really happened...
...which is why, one might theorize, that people never talk about the real pillar of our meritocratic order, namely grades. In my high school, everyone talked about “what they got” on the last history test, or how they were doing in AP Bio. Here, though, save among the closest friends, daring to mention actual letters (B, A- and so forth) will win you raised eyebrows and shocked stares. People will talk about anything, from their sex lives to their private psychoses, before they even come close to mentioning their G.P.A...
...attraction to gangsta rap and his fateful signing with Death Row Records. Shakur is turning up in bookstores too: a collection of his poems--The Rose That Grew from Concrete--published last year by Simon & Schuster, drew enthusiastic reader reviews. And it won't be long before a Shakur bio plays on the screen; MTV and several film companies are kicking around scripts. "He is a pop-culture icon," says Michael Develle Winn, the playwright behind Up Against the Wind. "People say he's alive because they can't bear the thought that he died so senselessly...