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...Game 2004 (Fuck Harvard)”—featuring classic lines such as “We don’t need to talk shit about Harvard, just read The Crimson”—isn’t quite as gangsta as his tough-guy persona suggests. MC Platano, a.k.a. Gabriel Hernandez, a sophomore, says “a lot of people call me Yale cuz I’m so well-endowed,” but one fan on his website’s online guestbook might as well call him Muffy...
...GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS Hang with your homies, or explore an open-ended gangsta's paradise...
...violent, amoral and laced with profanity--just like the Boyz N the Hood--era gangsta films to which it pays homage. But what really draws players back to this latest installment (for PlayStation2; $49.99) in the controversial Grand Theft Auto series is just how open-ended it is. Sure, you can take your homies on that drive-by shooting raid on a rival gang, or you can grab a car at random and simply explore the state of San Andreas. The designers at Rockstar have packed the cities of Los Santos and San Fiero (a.k.a. Los Angeles and San Francisco...
...life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clichs before applauding white ticket buyers...
...brilliant when it comes to breaking down scripts and casting," says Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live impresario who produced Mean Girls and more than half a dozen other films under Lansing's watch. Her 2005 slate is highly diverse, ranging from a music film with gangsta rapper 50 Cent to a new version of War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg...