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...storm, and thus steers away from dealing with the well-documented social effects of cocaine. Instead, the film is a biography of an extraordinary life, that of George Jung, the baby-faced Massachusetts native who went on to become the American connection for the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and the movie’s chief merit is the casting of Johnny Depp as Jung. If you did blow in the late 1970s or early 1980s, there is an 85 percent chance your coke spoon held the products of Jungian pharmacology. While Depp spends altogether too much...
...Popables"). Castrillon Hoyos speaks several languages and possesses an attractive combination of real-world pastoral experience and inside-the-Vatican bureaucratic savvy. In 1999, his compatriot Gabriel Garcia Marquez sang his praises in print, recalling how the Cardinal had dressed as a civilian to meet with drug lord Pablo Escobar, and explicitly calling Castrillon Hoyos a contender. The article, in the eyes of some, raised Castrillon Hoyos' profile a bit too high...
...years since he took his wife and two kids to visit his favorite country, the U.S., where they toured Disney World, with the full knowledge of U.S. officials. In 1993 Castano and his late brother Fidel reportedly did antidrug authorities the great favor of helping police hunt down Pablo Escobar, leader of the powerful Medellin cartel...
...came under fire as a threat to America's moral values, a few people stood up and defended hip-hop artists as troubadours of the ghetto, even if artists that truly deserved that tag were few and far between. Nasir Jones (aka Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka Nas Escobar, aka Nastradamus) was one such rapper. Nastradamus, his newest album, cements his reputation as urban troubadour or, as "Come Get Me" announces, "America's foremost young poet." From "The Prediction" to "The Outcome"--prophetic and apocalyptic spoken-word joints from poet Jessica Care Moore--Nas' album is a gritty mural...
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