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...most-intriguing-looking prospect, you'll have to wait until midseason: "Kingpin," a violent HBO wannabe about a Mexican drug lord and the DEA agents chasing him, had touches of both amoral crime opera and glitzy soap (its creative team comes from HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Corner"; the production company is prime-time soap czar Aaron Spelling's). The network is hyping it, probably self-fulfillingly, as the most controversial show of the season - and NBC's so bravely behind it, they're ordering a whole six episodes. (Most new shows initially...
...stance on the death penalty. Sources tell TIME that the Attorney General overruled recommendations from the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, as well as from his own committee of lawyers who review death-eligible cases, and instead decided last week to seek capital punishment for Emile Dixon, an alleged drug kingpin. It's the 12th time since he took office last year that Ashcroft has ordered the death penalty when his local prosecutors did not seek it, according to the Death Penalty Resource Council, a network of lawyers who help capital defendants. He's easily outpacing his predecessor, Janet Reno...
...January Def Jam and Jive Records threw a joint press conference to congratulate themselves on their good fortune: Def Jam's top artist, rapper Jay-Z--the multimillion-selling kingpin of the genre--and Jive's top R.-and-B. singer, R. Kelly--whose schizoid canon runs between gospel-infused hits like I Believe I Can Fly and bedroom numbers on the order of Like a Freak--were collaborating on an album. Synergy isn't a science, but given the platinum pedigrees of both artists, the album, The Best of Both Worlds, could plausibly have become the first...
There's a new axis of evil threatening the world's security - Dr. Octopus, Magneto, the Kingpin of Crime, and the Green Goblin (among others). Fortunately, the forces of light are mobilizing too - Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, the X-Men. Battles between good and evil are poised to commence in cinemas around the world, starting soon...
...This is an arrest that no one had thought was possible," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration czar Asa Hutchinson exulted when he got word of the capture of Tijuana Cartel kingpin Benjamin Arellano-Felix. "No one has come close to the power, violence and dominance that family has had in the last decade and a half...