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...Parents remain the most significant people in children's lives, until age 14 or 15, when they have more fully embraced peer culture," says Jean Bailey, coordinator of child and adolescent mental-health services at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Personal values about religion, sex and obeying authority are shaped primarily shaped by parents right up until the teenage years, when things suddenly shift. While kids may be exposed to sex in the media, "there's a lot of anxiety about what the whole deal of sexual behavior is," says child psychologist Anthony Wolf, author...
...line. After he filmed the mock crucifixion scene for the Nas video Hate Me Now, Combs had second thoughts that the imagery might be considered blasphemous. So as he often does, he consulted his religious adviser, the Rev. Hezekiah Walker of the Pentecostal Love Fellowship Tabernacle in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Combs worships. "I told him to cut the video," Walker told TIME. "Sean has a strong spiritual sense and a lot of faith, and I told him there were things that could damage him with the church." What's more, says Walker, "Sean is working on gospel-rap songs...
...Miramax?s party, but it?s still Rudy Giuliani?s town. The New York mayor hadn?t had a problem with the studio?s throwing a launch party for its new magazine, Talk -? headed by former New Yorker magazine siren Tina Brown -? at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard. Until he found out who the cover girl might be: Hillary Clinton, his likely foe in the upcoming U.S. Senate race. And now Rudy?s famous foot has come down -? no Democratic-leaning faux fund-raisers on the city?s dime. "We thought that would lead to an event possibly becoming...
...Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids trying to get into the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan...
DIED. EDDIE STANKY, 83, pugnacious, pennant-winning second baseman; in Fairhope, Ala. Nicknamed "the Brat," Stanky battled his way through 11 seasons for National League teams, including the champion Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves and New York Giants. "He can't run, he can't hit and he can't throw," said Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. "But if there's a way to beat the other team, he'll find...