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...album is pure testosterone, straight up, no chaser. For Ice Cube, protecting and asserting his manhood is an important political act. His ancestors came over in the bottom of the boat, the generation before him rode in the back of the bus, and he sure isn't going to go out handcuffed in the rear of a police car. The first song, When Will They Shoot?, is a blast of fear and loathing to a thumping metallic beat. "Will they do me like Malcolm?" Ice Cube asks. "Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven . . . The KKK has got three-piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Back In Anger | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

DeNiro plays Harry Fabian, an ambulance chaser (a.k.a. personal injury lawyer) who wants to be somebody. He decides to bring back the good old days of boxing with the help of Al Grossman (Jack Warden), a retired prizefighter prone to coronary failure...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Lights Out | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...addition to the lawyers advising her on the custody case, Farrow retained attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has acquired the odor of a Lamborghini ambulance chaser for his showboating defenses of the rich and heinous (Claus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson). Dershowitz contended that Allen's custody suit was "concocted" to obscure the issue of child molestation. He denied Allen's charge that Farrow, who took no alimony in her divorces from Frank Sinatra and composer-conductor Andre Previn, was demanding $7 million as a payoff to retract the child-abuse accusation. "Baloney," said Dershowitz; Farrow only "wants her family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Scenes From A Breakup | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jul. 6, 1992 | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

Having seen at least three friends fall to drugs, she's stayed clear of anything much stronger than the Drambuie she favors, usually with a beer chaser. She's spent most of her life playing around the Washington area, where she was reared; she was doing a set in Baltimore just two weeks after her daughter Rainy was born in 1962. "I was commuting, having a good time," she remembers. But she had "a young baby, a home to keep, a husband to cook meals for. Then when Rainy was about 11, 12 years old, I felt she needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Her Own Sweet Time | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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