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While Littleton was a tragedy for America, it was a great moment for show-biz talent. Not only did it finally bring Gloria Estefan to the White House to discuss gun control--which will no doubt encourage Brandy to attend some House Judiciary meetings--but it also forced other celebrities to tell us their political opinions. Rosie O'Donnell, who does ads for the rifle-selling K Mart chain, yelled at Tom Selleck for doing an ad for the N.R.A. The next week O'Donnell allegedly asked guest Bernadette Peters, who was going to sing on Rosie's show...
...like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...
...spite of my growing distaste for the more obviously commercial side of hip hop performance, I couldn't pass on the opportunity of seeing the almighty Kris Parker make his Knowledge Reign Supreme in club Liquid in Boston last Friday night, particularly because Biz Markie was supposed to be there as well. Plus I got in for free...
Despite the horrible club space, the unexpectedly poppish club deejays and the fact that KRS performed for only half an hour, the show was cool. Biz Mark got on the tables to play some breaks and some of his own instrumentals, beat-boxing and rhyming into the deejay mic at times to get everybody amped. The Diabolical has enough classics with thumping beats and memorable flows to satisfy any hip hop crowd. Much later, the Blastmaster KRS stepped to the mic to deliver a dope though way too short show. He kicked no more than a verse of each...
...traffic controllers are the true macho men of sky biz--cowboy choreographers who get the dozens of planes over New York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...