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...rapper got his first acting gig, essentially playing himself--a likable city kid--living the lush life on the class-conscious sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Lassiter told him, "'Listen, if we're going out to L.A., we probably should have a goal,'" Smith says. "I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.'" Lassiter, seeing promise that few others in Hollywood would, took his friend seriously and found a list of the 10 top-grossing movies of all time. "We looked at them and said, O.K., what are the patterns?" Smith recalls...
...movement petered out or became commercialized elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s - at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto. Onie recalls listening to Guns N' Roses and boy band New Kids on the Block and never feeling a real connection with the music. "Then an Indonesian friend told me that I had to listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and I loved it," he says. Punk soon proliferated...
...collaboration. One Sunday this fall found a dozen children up to age 6 and several parents playing percussion instruments and singing empowering anthems like I'm Unique and Unrepeatable, set to the tune of Ten Little Indians, instead of traditional Sunday-school songs like Jesus Loves Me. Rather than listen to a Bible story, the class read Stone Soup, a secular parable of a traveler who feeds a village by making a stew using one ingredient from each home...
...winning on this rivalry weekend.“You definitely want the support, but it’s a different situation—there’s some football game going on down there,” McCann said, adding, “We just said, ‘Listen. This is our building, we gotta play hard, we gotta go after them, we gotta play our type of game. Let’s not worry about who’s going to be there, what type of noise it is—anything like that. Let?...
...section. “We want to focus on what we’re going to do be successful, not what the outside is going to be like,” said assistant coach Sean McCann ’94. “We just said, ‘Listen. This is our building, we gotta play hard, we gotta go after them, we gotta play our type of game. Let’s not worry about who’s going to be there, what type of noise it is—anything like that. Let?...