Word: hangin
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...October brings an animated version of Aaron McGruder's militantly funny comic strip The Boondocks to Cartoon Network. Ridley, once a writer on Martin Lawrence's sitcom Martin, says that means there is more pressure to stand out. "When I started out," he says, "black TV was very limited--Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Homeboys in Outer Space. Now they're raising the bar. We can't just give people more of the movie. They can get that...
...vast, untapped market," says Jonathan Bock, a former sitcom writer (Hangin' with Mr. Cooper), whose Grace Hill Media helps sell Hollywood films to Christian tastemakers. He pitches media outlets like Catholic Digest and The 700 Club and has created sermons and Bible-study guides and marketed such movies as The Lord of the Rings, Signs, The Rookie and, yes, Elf. "The ground was softened before The Passion," says Bock. "There are hundreds of Christian critics and Jewish writers and ministers who are writing about films." And millions of the faithful who see them. A July 2004 study by George Barna...
Simon Cowell is the Barry Goldwater of reality TV: in your heart, you know he's right. After a weak rendition of You Keep Me Hangin' On last month on an episode of American Idol, sweet-faced Leah LaBelle was told by Cowell to "pack your suitcase." The crowd booed him lustily. The next night Idol's army of home voters sent LaBelle packing. This is the Cowell paradox. Fans of Fox's megahit talent show--not to mention its contestants--have few kind words for the adder-tongued English judge. He's been jeered, doused with a glass...
North Star sixth-grader Oluyomi Ijandipe explains the appeal of Wish's program from a kid's perspective. "In a regular music class, you've gotta raise your hand," says the baby-faced B.B. King fan. "In this one, you're just hangin'." This could, of course, be an argument for sticking with regular music classes. Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers...
...breathy vocals (his Emerald Isle accent dissolving into a surfer's drawl) make him sound like J. Mascis backed by the Beach Boys. Big Sur begs to be blared from a car speeding along the highway with the top down: "Just don't go back to Big Sur/ Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down." Sometimes, the cheesy Americana is spread on too thick, as in Your Love is Like Las Vegas, with uninspired lyrics like "Your love is like a city that burnt me good/ Las Vegas I could only afford one weekend." But you can't help feeling...