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Following in the footsteps of Sir Mix-A-Lot and Skee-Lo, Little-T and One Track Mike rebel against standard egotistical, gangster rap. Their mix of creative lyrics and self-deprecating humor creates songs that both impress you and make you smile. Even the album’s title, Fome is Dape (a rearrangement of “Fame is Dope”), plays on this ironic sense of both being a rapper and retaining humility. The duo’s talent is evident in the rhymes, as well as in the breadth and variety of their music...
...AWARDED. PETER CAREY, 58, the Booker Prize for his book True History of the Kelly Gang, a fictionalized account of Australian legend Ned Kelly, the notorious outback gangster-turned-Robin Hood; in London. Carey became the second author in the prize's 33-year history to win twice, after South African J.M. Coetzee. Carey first won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven...
...could keep grinding out meticulous, and well-nigh flawless, gangster movies; it's the genre closest to his heart. But To and Wai, who serves as writer, co-producer and co-director, don't care to be cult figures. They're in business. Movies cost money and in Hong Kong, beset by movie piracy, the brain drain and the overall artistic glums, only 5% of all films released last year earned a profit. Wai and To want to be in that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier...
There's enough satisfying Redstone philosophy to keep you flipping pages, although the book wastes too much time dropping names from Bill Clinton to gangster Bugsy Siegel without dishing dirt or at least providing the juicy insider stuff Redstone surely has. He seems intent on not making enemies, professing friendship with onetime adversaries Barry Diller, a loser in the fight for Paramount, and Jerry Levin, whom he sued for cable access. (Levin is CEO of AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME...
...this time last year, Russian generals talked confidently of the final stage of their operations in Chechnya-mopping up the scattered bands of guerrillas who had fled to the hills to escape the Russian military onslaught. Vladimir Putin, in his most famous sound bite ever, promised in gangster language to "rub out" the separatist commanders, even if they were on "the john." But something has gone badly wrong. The guerrillas are back in the cities and towns. The Kremlin has turned against the civilian it put in charge of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, and replaced the military commander. And Russian officials...