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...unable to function in a relationship-the tunes themselves are good solid rock. Nothing on this album will blow any listeners away, but most will find the Afghan Whigs a comfortable alternative to more highly touted but less interesting mainstream rock. For the grunge fan tired of Pearl Jam, it might be worth it to give the Whigs a whirl...
...longer formed along racial lines, the pressure accelerates to figure out what white interests really are. The enlisted military is almost one-quarter black; police forces are blackening in large urban areas. But welfare is nearly two-thirds white; affirmative-action beneficiaries are overwhelmingly white women; dysfunctional white families jam the talk shows and court...
...Visiteurs, was a hit of monster proportions. "The Visitors is the double of Jurassic Park," touted Toubon. "We are the best." At that moment, Americans in attendance had to be grateful that the U.S. has no government executive whose job it is to flack for Roseanne Arnold or Pearl Jam simply because their TV show and record album are at the top of the American charts. But the Floridians who packed the Sarasota Opera House in this sparkling Gulf Coast resort town would sit through any speech, however fatuous, that signaled the re-emergence of one of the world...
...write even on bathroom walls, and young America loves him for it. The 28-year-old comic has a naughty new comedy album titled Talkin' Shthat's on Billboard magazine's best-seller chart. He's the host of HBO's stand-up-comic showcase Def Comedy Jam, a program that has become the proving ground for a new generation of Richard Pryor wannabes. He is also the star of Fox-TV's Martin, a black-themed slapstick sitcom that is one of the top-rated shows among teenagers, and, as Lawrence points out, his voice rising with excitement...
...laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite...