Word: madnesses
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Nancy Grace is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. In case you think the former Atlanta prosecutor turned CNN and Court TV personality gets out all of her anger on TV, check out her fiery new book, Objection! How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System (Hyperion). Galley Girl caught up with her by phone in the CNN makeup room, waiting to do her show. Grace is nothing if not precise, answering questions in her twangy Southern accent as though she were on the witness...
...younger gangsters, the shootings are like a game. And with the cops pulling back, the game has only one rule: Kill or be killed. On a Saturday night in the Playboys' neighborhood, three young gang members are hanging out--Rowdy, Spotter and Mad Dog. Spotter has taken a sniper's position with a rifle on top of a building overlooking Pico. Rowdy is down at the corner with a Beretta handgun in a pocket of his baggy pants, and Mad Dog is standing in the street, flashing gang signs at passing cars and looking to draw fire from any rival...
Lose an arm or your legs, or the use of your spine, and it's awful. But for many quadriplegics, there's still lots left: heart, guts and competitive instinct. The boldest among them engage in a fearsome sport called quad rugby--or murderball. Strapped into supercharged Mad Max wheelchairs, two teams of four players bang metal and fight like hell. The goal, says one: "Kill the man with the ball...
There are the inner-city kids of Rize, who raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything...
...reality MTV. That network's film division is distributing Murderball--which Shapiro says is "definitely more MTV than PBS"--and will give it plenty of on-air promotion this month. MTV's kid brother, Nickelodeon Movies, put money into Mad Hot Ballroom. When dockers go to Nick and MTV rather than to the New York State Council on the Arts for support, something has changed. Docs have stopped relying on government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What...