Word: cops
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Klipfel's husband Mike Casali says he too passed along disturbing news about a Chicago cop, this from an informant who reported a rumor that a cop assigned to ATF was selling guns to gang members and had helped cover up a murder...
...eyebrows were raised when Long Island LotharioJoey Buttafuocowas arrested last month for soliciting sex from an undercover cop on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. But today, just a few blocks away, it was -- oh no! --British heartthrob Hugh Grant.Police say the demure, 34-year-old actor, best known as the lead in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," invited a "known prostitute" into his car in the wee hours and was later "observed to be engaged in an act of lewd conduct." He's due in a Los Angeles courtroom to face a misdemeanor charge July...
...profits the movie earned last year. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, whose company produced Natural Born Killers and has put out much of the most offensive music, says that rappers like Ice-T are misunderstood: when Ice-T chants "Die, die, die, pig, die," he is not really advocating cop killing, but trying to put us in touch with the "anguished" mind of someone who feels this...
...over rap is not making life any easier for him. A cerebral, low-key chief executive, Levin has consistently defended the company's raunchy rap music on the grounds of freedom of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a legitimate expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression...
Company officials argue that it is futile to try to stamp out rap by clamping down on a single company. When Ice-T withdrew his Cop Killer song after the 1992 controversy and left Warner Records, he was instantly picked up by another label. Warner record officials note that other major record companies -- who are, after all, Time Warner competitors -- have pointedly failed to come to Time Warner's defense over the issue of rap. "Obviously," says one senior Warner record executive, "if just Time Warner falls and commits hara-kiri, that will be great for people who hate...