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...collected comics and played Dungeons & Dragons. I was the opposite of the stereotypical image of a black kid. My most tangible link, the one that repeatedly saved me, was the music. I had all the verses from LL Cool J down cold. In college, I expanded out to Bob Marley and John Coltrane. In short, I was a black-music nerd, for sure out of love but also out of a need to find some common ground with my own. I never explored beyond that, mostly because the kids in my neighborhood believed the words white and music...
...commercial breaks are noticeably shorter. If families still sat around the radio in happy little nuclear units, they would spend the night rocking out to Jack. In the year since it was introduced in the U.S., Jack radio has spread to 17 stations and spawned such copycats as Bob FM and Dave FM and has invented a format so widespread, it already has a name: variety hits. No concept has overtaken the nation's dials so successfully since the morning zoo hit in the early...
...does Jack inspire all the bile? It's not as if it were one of those seemingly hipster products that was actually created after much consumer testing by a conglomerate. Jack has a lovable indie backstory, starting out as one guy's website. In 2000, Bob Perry, a former DJ and station manager who had moved to Connecticut to be near his wife's aging parents, started fooling around with Internet radio. He got some cheap software that allowed him to randomize song order, causing "train wrecks"--ballads followed by headbangers. He put it up as jack.fm and slid...
Interference was a given, with Miramax--Dimension Films' Bob and Harvey Weinstein backing Grimm. The Weinsteins overruled Gilliam's choice of Samantha Morton as the female lead (they wanted a more conventionally beautiful actress, and got one in Lena Headey). They fired cinematographer Nicola Pecorini after six weeks (he was shooting too slowly, they said) and nixed a silly nose Damon was to wear (Bob says, "It would be the most expensive nose job in history"). "I'm used to riding roughshod over studio executives," Gilliam says, "but the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me." To Bob, it was just business...
...investors who put up a reported $70 million with which they last year bought Newsworld International (NWI), an international news channel, from Vivendi. The fact that nearly all of them are also big Democratic contributors (including Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, MTV creator and former America Online exec Bob Pittman and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's financier husband Richard Blum) has raised questions about whether they are investing in Gore's business plan--or doing him a favor. "There may be a mixture of motives," concedes Orville Schell, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley...