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...Benedict and Don Yaeger estimate that 1 in 5 players has been charged with a serious crime. "NFL teams are recruiting a new breed of criminal players the likes of which should disturb all NFL fans," the authors conclude. "Gone are the good old days of NFL recruits having rap sheets detailing merely drunken brawls and vandalism. In are the days of lethal violence, rape, armed robbery, home invasion, kidnapping and drug dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching Some Redemption | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...complaint that would embarrass New Kids on the Block, let alone a rocker like Marilyn. And what of a claim a few days later that Manson ordered his bodyguards to beat up Spin magazine editor Craig Marks? Seems the same move had been tried weeks earlier by a rap producer and three friends who allegedly manhandled a Blaze magazine editor. Let's not even start with the tired old pretending-to-use-the-flag-as-toilet- paper thing he did last week. Can't help wondering where he came up with that name, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...benefits, though, for the kind of power that L.B. wielded on the studio lot extended to local politics. When a drunken Gable hit and killed a pedestrian near Hollywood Boulevard, L.B. sent Gable into hiding and then conspired with the local D.A. to have a minor executive take the rap in return for staying on the payroll for life at a higher salary. A pliant press hushed the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUIS B. MAYER: Lion Of Hollywood | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...last two movies (Independence Day and Men in Black), Smith proves that his appeal lies in his own acting abilities rather than his adorable extra terrestrial counterparts. Enemy of the State demonstrates Smith's range of talents and solidifies his position as a major Hollywood force, not just a rap artist-turned-actor...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Primp Your Paranoia: Big Brother's Your `Enemy' | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...Lisa Lange says, speaking for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "teach children that life is not valuable?" A skeptic might observe that if anyone is teaching children in American society that life is not valuable, that teacher speaks through the media of television and movies and gangsta rap, not hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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