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...equally enjoyable for the bigger kids in the audience. The best jokes involved references to all elements of popular culture—everything from “Les Misérables” to James Frey to “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” Playing the show as a farce drew out the absurdities just below the surface of Dickens’ melodrama. Indeed, this show wasn’t so much an adaptation of Dickens’ novel as it was a deconstruction of it. Nowhere was this more effective...
...Shawn's hopes are bolstered by his plan. Auto-body work is not just a passing fancy for him--even when he's not at the vocational school, he is working on his Camaro, which most recently needed a new bumper. His favorite TV show, of course, is Pimp My Ride. He wants to save for tuition at Lincoln Technical Institute in Indianapolis so he can continue to develop his auto-sculpting skills. He rattles off the industry rates--car painters make an hourly wage of $22, collision techs $17--and he wants to get there. So he laughs...
...lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists, led by a hash-smoking pimp in a gold turban, for a two-day expulsion ritual. Unhappily, it involved slaughtering Ariane's pet goat and sprinkling its blood in every room. The Caliph's House ends with most obstacles surmounted - the jinns are gone, the books are allowed into the country untranslated - and the transplanted Londoners...
...called pimpumentaries vary in quality from mainstream productions like the Hughes Brothers ("Menace II Society") film "American Pimp," which was nominated for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, to roughly edited DVDs available online like "Really Really Pimpin' in da South," which was released last year. Brent Owens, the director of several films on prostitution for HBO including "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," says he makes such films to "shed light on a subculture"and is "not condoning it or glorifying it." Nonetheless, Las Vegas vice detective Aaron Stanton says that every juvenile victim he has interviewed...
...While no one is advocating that such documentaries be censored, activists working against prostitution are upset to see pimps glorified or affirmed as authority figures, whether intentionally or not. In pop culture, pimps have become cool. Lois Lee, founder of Children of the Night, an organization that aims to take prostitutes off the street, was dismayed to see Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," from "Hustle & Flow," win best song at the Oscars. Songs and videos about pimping "make it look like it's O.K.," argues Lee, who has known thousands of prostitutes...