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Theater, meanwhile, tried to keep from likewise aging itself out of business by expanding into youth-targeted productions like Def Poetry Jam and a La Boheme from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. But it also repeatedly reached back to baby-boomer-and-beyond icons (nostalgic, perhaps, for a time when you could get people to see an original Broadway show). It revived Oklahoma! and Into the Woods and Flower Drum Song. It adapted movies: Hairspray (John Waters' movie about early-'60s Baltimore), The Graduate, Marty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? It even got choreographer Twyla Tharp, for Movin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Fat Year in Culture | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...JAM MASTER JAY Crossover King of The Rhythm Nation

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Who Left Us In 2002 | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...letters of his name/Cutting and scratching are the aspects of his game." On every album they ever made, rappers Run and D.M.C. made sure to include a verse like that, if not an entire song, about their favorite subject: Jam Master Jay. His real name was Jason Mizell, and though he wasn't necessarily the best DJ in rap, he was the first to fuse hip-hop beats with rock melodies, fueling Run-D.M.C.'s historic crossover to the pop charts (they were the first rap group to sell a million records) and changing the sound of pop music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Who Left Us In 2002 | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...with its energetic house band Fong Nam, who play a mix of traditional Thai songs and sugary Western pop. Legendary Thai folk icon Ad Carabao gave a series of concerts at Tawandaeng's music hall last September. Film star Steven Seagal even joined him on stage for a blues jam. I can't believe I missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brews for Beer Snobs | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

Today, guests find new friends and common interests among jam cookies and plush armchairs. Gomes enjoys moving among their distinct conversations and different languages...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tea Time with the Rev. Professor | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

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