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...That's an attractive look. No wonder some Spanish guys are ready to rape any white woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes about their sex life and freely used a common derogatory word for black people. New York City Mayor David Dinkins was offended, and talk-show host Montel Williams resigned from the Friars Club in protest. But Goldberg stood by her man, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOCK OF THE BLUE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...everybody in attendance knows the rules -- though, to the dismay of Danson and Goldberg, not always. Beavis and Butt-Head's troubles come from the same sort of confusion. The two cartoon nerds do not encourage stupidity and cruelty to animals; they satirize it. The show may actually be an endorsement of politically correct attitudes, points out Jack Nachbar, professor of popular culture at Ohio's Bowling Green State University. ''If you have a bigot put in front of you and made to look ridiculous,'' he says, ''then that becomes an attack on bigotry. Beavis and Butt-Head, politically incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOCK OF THE BLUE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...heroin overdose; Cobain has already spent some of his fresh superstardom as a heroin user. The Who and Jimi Hendrix ritually smashed and burned guitars onstage in the '60s; today Nirvana does its own instrument-destroying thing. There is a familiar solipsism. Alternative rock, says Atlantic Records' Danny Goldberg, who managed both Nirvana and Sonic Youth, ''takes itself very seriously. It's very similar to the '60s.'' Plus the jeans, the extremely long hair . . . ''I look at Nirvana and Soul Asylum,'' says Jann Wenner, the 47-year-old founder of Rolling Stone, ''and I practically get acid flashbacks.'' In other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTATOR ROCK AND ROLL DEJA VU | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...They are now raising their own families, and I expect that when their very young children are a bit older, they will do the same with them. Children learn an enormous amount from their parents; they should have the chance to learn responsible drinking from them as well. Edward Goldberg, Ann Arbor, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...raising their own families, and I expect that when their very young children are a bit older, they will do the same with them. Children obviously learn an enormous amount from their parents; they should have the chance to learn responsible drinking from them as well. Edward Goldberg, ANN ARBOR, MICH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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