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...what comes out of his mouth is getting more attention than the color of his skin. Not since the heyday of N.W.A. has hip-hop served up a feast of violence and fantasy as fiendishly witty as Eminem's The Slim Shady LP. On a song titled '97 Bonnie & Clyde, a ripping satire of Will Smith's treacly Just the Two of Us, Eminem raps about pushing his troublesome spouse off a pier while their daughter looks on. "There goes mama splashing in the water/ No more fighting with dada/ No more restraining order." Edgy stuff, even by rap standards...
...astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, the ninth planet...
Peanut butter and jelly, Bonnie and Clyde...the Boston Ballet and Lyle Lovett? Why not? Why not could very well be the catch phrase for "The Young Masters;" Boston Ballet's first performance of the season comprising the works of three young, innovative choreographers. This is ballet turned inside out, rooted in classical technique but branching into a startling diversity. Influenced by sources as disparate as Beethoven and the Austrailian Bush, the the main link between the three pieces was their inventiveness...
...this: the violence and misogyny and lustful materialism that characterize some rap songs are as deeply American as the hokey music that rappers appropriate. The fact is, this country was in love with outlaws and crime and violence long before hip-hop--think of Jesse James, and Bonnie and Clyde--and then think of the movie Bonnie and Clyde, as well as Scarface and the Godfather saga. In the movie You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks even refers to the Godfather trilogy as the perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree. Snoop Dogg...
...penalty was reinstated in 1976, 160 of them in Texas. Of the 3,500 inmates currently on death row nationwide, more than 450 are detained at Huntsville. It is interesting to note that Gurule was the first to escape from death row since the 1934 flight of Bonnie and Clyde gang member Raymond Hamilton--the man was clearly desperate. While he and his conspirators made meticulous plans to escape, they had no idea what they would do once they were outside the perimeter walls. They just...