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...contractual obligations. It reveals just how ahead of his times Prince was in anticipating "the decidedly unlovesexy anger and violence in the gangster rap of the 1990s," says TIME Music Critic David Thigpen. Of the music, Thigpen notes that "the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men." And, while the anger in the music will probably hamper its success, it is nevertheless "a rich and complex record by one of pop's most talented, multifarious performers."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...Twilight Zone"; but the description promises both too much and too little. In one of the three half-hour episodes (which are running throughout the month), the statue of a saint comes to life, forcing a barrio priest to grapple with issues of religion and faith. In another, a ghetto layabout and his abused girlfriend are visited by a mysterious messenger who delivers a rifle along with a note telling them to "wait for instructions." Despite the supernatural overtones, the stories are too dramatically murky to have passed muster on Rod Serling's old series...
...border, and TV stars from Michael J. Fox to Dan Aykroyd and Martin Short have came from Canada. But the xenophobic networks have always resisted Canadian programs; the few that travel south have mostly been consigned to cable, syndication and the late-night crime-time-after-prime-time ghetto...
...well it works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the play's anti-Semitism -- turning it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler plays Shylock with basso-profundo self-assurance; he's a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity...
Cinema: Searing documentary about ghetto basketballers...