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...backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen beetle on their way to Mama Slocumb’s (Whoopi Goldberg) house when they run out of gas. While waiting for Ray Bud to rescue them, they begin to listen to music. In accordance with his gangsta get-up, Royce tunes the radio to a rap radio station. Baffled, his mother changes the station to gospel...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kingdom Comes' and Laughter Follows | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...According to the lawsuit, "Boot Camp" producers LMNO pitched CBS on the show last June, with one twist: The drill sergeants - those real-life Marine "save the drama for yer mama" guys with the big hats - would do the voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Gets Really Litigious | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

CoCo's origins are charmingly mundane. In Hong Kong, CoCo lived with her mother and sisters Nancy and Carol until she was eight. (Her father died before CoCo was delivered.) Then Mama Lee decided her daughters needed English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Pops | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...because I would go crazy." Like a lot of Europeans of her generation Cruz is on the move, leaving her homeland to further her career but retaining a strong connection to her Spanish roots. Cruz identifies Spain as her home - she's one of three children of a hairdresser mama and a retailer papa and grew up in Madrid - but she calls herself a "citizen of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penelope Cruz: Euro Star | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Four foot eleven. She was a little mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaquille O'Neal | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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