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...another video. In early February the Chicago Sun-Times received a tape from an anonymous source that purported to show Kelly, 33, a Chicago native, having a sexual encounter with a minor. Local police then launched an investigation. Within weeks, the video landed on the Internet and on bootleg tables across America's inner cities. Now available as R. Kelly Exposed, the 35-minute tape shows a man who appears to be Kelly ejaculating and urinating on what appears to be an adolescent girl. (Illinois law prohibits sex with anyone under 17.) Kelly's lawyer, John Touhy, denies that...
...life imitating Jay-Z’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” self-styled “Super MC” Casey B. Weinstein ’03 dumped girlfriend Trish G. Fenster ’02 after he claimed “she kept bootlegging my shit.” Commented a distraught Fenster, “I don’t know what he’s talking about—it’s not like he makes CDs. Or tapes. Or anything that anyone, least of all me, could or would bootleg...
Everyone has artistic obsessions. For most college kids in the age of the Internet, the endless search for the perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...Luckily, they throw music at Cameron. People saw the picture and bent over backwards to make sure that we could get the music that we wanted. And also, hanging out with Cameron is great, because you get all the bootleg copies of all the music you could ever want [laughs all around]. Anything you can imagine, it’s incredible...
Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut, Dec. 4 ($26.99) Cameron Crowe’s sweet, semi-autobiographical fable about a teenage writer covering a band for Rolling Stone, features a separate DVD for the extras as well—as a stand alone CD with six Stillwater songs. The original film was already wholly engrossing; the director’s cut—36 minutes longer—will only make burgeoning writers more jealous of Crowe’s life...