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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although he grew up in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, he is through and through a Kentucky gentleman. Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson are some others who might strike you as celebrities, but to us they are native sons. Kentuckians by and large try never to get above their raisin' by forgetting where they come from. And they can turn on the charm and charisma at will. We tend to have never met a stranger, and once we're a friend, we're always a friend. Brad Noel, LEXINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Clooney Came to Dinner | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

What connection do you have with the character you portray in A Raisin in the Sun? -Shirley Jones Luke, BostonA very strong connection. A lot of people think that because I have been successful, I have forgotten that I grew up in Harlem. My father was killed when I was 3 years old, so I also grew up in a house with three women-same as Walter Lee. The anxiety that you feel when you may not become someone that you want to be, I was able to relate to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Sean Combs | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...multi-aliased rapper, an actor and a fashion mogul, and his intense turn as an ambivalent striver in the TV-movie adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun airs Feb. 25 on abc. Sean Combs will now take your questions

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Sean Combs | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Mustard—you can lather mustard on just about anything. Mustard on a cinnamon raisin bagel...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 DINING HALL APHRODISIACS | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...course, if caramel and raisin don't sound like torchworthy qualities for wine, that's because J.W. Lees isn't a wine. It's a beer, one of about two dozen on Gramercy Tavern's new vintage-beer list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Brew | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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