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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...racial issues alive and festering under the rug of polite society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody's pet Negro." Neither is McGruder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Comic N the Hood | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play kink (in Summer of Sam). Nothing erotic--just the use of flesh as a tool of degradation. In the typical movie, sex is violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Defense of Dirty Movies | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...American record buyers. Wholesome is hot these days--look at Ricky Martin or Britney Spears--but Voice of an Angel may prove a harder sell, consisting as it does of wishy-washy arrangements of hymns and Celtic folk songs, with Andrew Lloyd Webber's easy-listening setting of Pie Jesu thrown in for bad measure. Sony Classical, which is devoting a steadily increasing share of its energies to such lowbrow crossover projects as Michael Bolton's My Secret Passion: The Arias and the Titanic sound track, is promoting the CD aggressively (Church is sharing space with Mariah Carey on some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charlotte Church: Youth Will Be Served | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain the UPN lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...proportional representation is the name ofthe game, Christian and European-Americans shouldget into the game, and demand their fair share ofevery pie: 75 percent, and no less," Buchananwrites...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Dilemmas | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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