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...latest album, O.G. Original Gangster, is his best and most balanced. Ice-T's vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire Around The Ice: ICE-T | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...returned to Los Angeles, he drifted into crime. His homeys had stepped up their activities to robbery, credit-card fraud and even arson. Despite his musical ambitions, Marrow rejoined his crew and started making serious money. He says now of that period, "I thought I'd be a hustler for the rest of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire Around The Ice: ICE-T | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

Offstage, Ice-T seems far removed from his writing-performing persona of a hard-rap hustler. For the most part, he speaks quietly, his light brown eyes narrowing as he makes a point. At an even 6 ft., light skinned and dressed casually but neatly with his Nike shoestrings tied just so, he can blend into the crowd at his usual hangouts, from Spago to Red Lobster Inn. He relishes the rewards of his success -- his house in the Hollywood hills, for example, where he lives with his girlfriend Darlene Ortiz and their six-month-old baby boy; his collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire Around The Ice: ICE-T | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...York, which was at the time one of the few / states in which abortion was legal. Referral agencies popped up overnight to charge the out-of-staters as much as $100 for the names of abortion doctors. As prices climbed as high as $1,000, abortion became a hustler's game. "There were doctors who were literally becoming millionaires," says Dr. Irving Rust, the medical director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx. "Anytime you have a situation where supply and demand is the main dynamic, it brings out the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abortion the Future Is Already Here | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

WHAT A DREAM CAST: ROGER REES IN HIS first New York theater role since he won the Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Apr. 20, 1992 | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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