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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Beaver has become shorthand for 1950s naiveté. But as you can see over 39 episodes (TV seasons, like airline legroom, were more generous then), its picture of child-hood could be tart as well as sweet. When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you." Beaver was never edgy, but it packed its own good-natured punch...
...Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept in whorehouses." He had no capital to invest in drilling, so he put the farmers and the oil companies together, typing the contracts on a portable typewriter on the hood of his rental car. His strength was making a deal look good, or as friend and fellow oilman Denny Bartell says, he had an ability to "powder the pig." Van Dyke would often keep a small percentage interest, but he was usually out of the operation before drilling began...
...tryin’.’”50 is often perceived as a thug who still adheres to the code of the streets. But he’s a pop star now, and his image has softened a bit since he left the ’hood. Nevertheless, 50 says he thinks people judge musicians—especially rappers—more harshly than other artists.He cites as an example of this double standard the public outcry over the advertisements for his movie, one of which shows him with a gun in his waistband and a baby...
Directed by Jim Sheridan Paramount Pictures 2 stars Sitting in the theater with my hood up and the Gs on my G Unit sneakers still spinning, I was prepared to enjoy the best film of the year. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” 50 Cent’s semi-autobiographical tale of rags-to-rap-stardom, promised everything that I look for in a film: drug-dealing, thugged-out raptors (rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times...
...that if you step back and actively try to analyze the music, it falls apart, and this unified feel turns into a monotonous, depressing, barely tolerable drone. If Mr. Cent set out to create the aural equivalent of a Queens ghetto to accompany the movie’s actual hood, he has succeeded. The tedium is broken up periodically by some standout tracks. In “What If,” 50 captures some of the same desperation that he pulled off in his outstanding verse on the Game’s “Hate It Or Love...