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...fellow African-American comic Chris Tucker were "reactionary" and to decry Rock's "reliance upon minstrelsy and coon comedy." The criticism echoes a frequent complaint that Rock's politically incorrect humor gives cover to racists--most infamously his "Niggas vs. Black People" routine from the Bring the Pain HBO special that helped revive his career in 1996 after three years in the wilderness that followed his underutilized tenure on Saturday Night Live. As the heart of the bit went: "Every time black people want to have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggas f--- it up!... Can't do nothing...
...political comics, whose insights go no deeper than poking knee-jerk fun at Bill Clinton's appetites or George W. Bush's intellectual dullness, Rock at his best lays bare society's underlying fault lines. And there's no one he won't take to task: last season his HBO talk show featured a parody instructional video, How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police. "Follow these easy tips," Rock said. "First, obey the law!" Rock knows the most cathartic laughter springs from a masochistic impulse. (Sadistic laughter, on the other hand, is the junk food of mirth...
...WANT MY HBO Are you going to let your TV boss you around? Soon you may not have to. HBO has a new cable service called HBO Interactive, due out this summer. For 10 extra bucks a month, you can watch anything that's on HBO any given week, whenever you want, however many times you want. Microsoft, Showtime and @Home have similar "Video on Demand" projects in the works. Just remember: Tony Soprano don't take orders from nobody...
...offers meetings for Anglos at 6, for Mexicans at 8. But everyone strolls along the seaside malecon to hear the mariachis and goes to the same black-market dealers for illegal hookups to U.S. DirecTV satellites. "It's great," says Lou Wells, 67, a former railroad clerk. "We get hbo, Showtime, and we can watch $150 pay-per-view fights for free...
...producer of the Oscar-nominated movie Being John Malkovich. Stipe is currently producing a wide range of films, including the high school coming-of-age feature Our Song (opening in New York City on May 23 and wider in June), the women's prison drama Stranger Inside (airing on HBO June 23) and 13 Conversations About One Thing, a drama about karma, which should hit the festival circuit later this year. "Onstage it's all about me, whether it should be or not," says Stipe. "But Peter's frankly much smarter and more articulate than...