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...deteriorating film stock, Gast and filmmaker Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) completed the film in 1994, hoping to promote it with a sound track CD comprising music from the festival stars (James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba) and new groups like the Fugees, who laid down a rap track over Ali's incantatory doggerel. But no one wanted to distribute the movie--until it won the documentary prize at last year's Sundance festival. The picture opens this week, 22 years late, but just in time for an expected Oscar nomination...
DIED. CHICO SCIENCE, 30, Brazilian bandster noted for his novel "mangue-beat" fusion of rock, rap and Brazilian rhythms; in a car crash; near Recife...
...reopen his case will have a tough time. Many of the witnesses, including key subordinates from Lincoln and its parent, American Continental Corp., are far from eager to repeat their performance now that their own cases have been settled. So it seems that Keating may have beaten the rap. True, he has served more time than nearly all the major white-collar criminals of the '80s, including notorious junk-bond king Michael Milken, with whom he did hundreds of millions of dollars in deals...
...perplexing chasm separated the two Tupac Shakurs. As rap's Public Gangsta No. 1, he spumed venom on CD, reeked menace onstage, wore his tattoos like a war hero's medals, did time for violent crimes and, at 25, got gunned down in Las Vegas last September. As a budding film star, though, he pinwheeled charm and emotional purity. Shakur, who had acted professionally since he was 12, wasn't quite Sidney Poitier, but in a decent range of roles (in Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim) he showed power and promise...
...there some punishment for the Wall Street type who sits down in a restaurant and immediately begins talking loudly into a cell phone about what would or wouldn't be a deal-breaker and who is or isn't a player? If the rap for intercepting cell-phone conversations (up to five years in prison) is considered too harsh for this sort of infraction, what about giving this guy some lesser penalty like suspension of luxury-sedan driving privileges or confiscation of red suspenders...