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There are times when Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab just wants to be Tim Parker, and forget, even if only momentarily, about his rap career. His constant touring leads to an “awkward balance,” he says, between “a normal life” spent enjoying the company of his friends and family and his life as a world-renowned MC. One of the consequences of Gab’s always being on the road is that he’s had “less time to just kick it with...
...this year Eleganza is expanding to the Bright Hockey Center, where you and a thousand of your closest friends can watch scantily-clad models and performers do their thing on the elongated runway, while a large projection screen in the background magnifies each person up to twelve times their normal size. With a planning staff of about twenty-five people and over $2,500 spent on lighting alone, Ardrey calls Eleganza a “creative playground for those without a voice...
...through study of the abnormal that one gets a clearer knowledge of the normal. And men who teach well minds how to care for themselves must know what happens when they...
...that's not exactly rare on TV today. More unusual was Friends' fixation--consistent but never spotlighted in "very special episodes"--with alternative families. Like all romantic comedies, Friends tends to end its seasons with weddings or births. And yet none of the Friends has had a baby the "normal" way--in the Bushian sense--through procreative sex between a legally sanctioned husband and wife. Chandler and Monica adopt. Ross has kids by his lesbian ex-wife and his unwed ex-girlfriend. Phoebe carries her half brother and his wife's triplets (one of the funniest, sweetest and creepiest situations...
...message of Friends, in other words, is that there is no normal anymore and that Americans--at least the plurality needed to make a sitcom No. 1--accept that. (To the show's discredit, it used a cast almost entirely of white-bread heteros to guide us through all that otherness.) In January 1996, when Ross's ex-wife married her lesbian lover, the episode raised scant controversy, and most of that because Candace Gingrich--the lesbian sister of Newt, then Speaker of the House--presided over the ceremony. "This is just another zooey episode of the justifiably popular Friends...