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...documentary Rhyme & Reason, that "the hardest thing I ever had to overcome is really just making the transition from being a street hustling nigger to, like, a star." Friends say Wallace only rapped about violence to make enough money to leave it all behind. Says Lance Rivera, a close friend of Wallace's: "He said he wanted to move his family down to Atlanta, build them a house there and write a book...
...Reported by Sylvester Monroe and Patrick E. Cole/Los Angeles, Edward Barnes, Elaine Rivera, Jennifer Steil and Richard Zoglin/New York, Dan Goodgame and Jack E. White/Washington and Tammerlin Drummond/Atlanta
...minutes, "Rust" alternates between scenes of sheer cruelty and a type of low comedy, provided mostly by the shrieking, dull neighbor Miss Nancy (Tegan Willever), and a few familiar jokes about shouting in libraries and Geraldo Rivera. In the end, after his escape collapses just as his siblings have predicted, Brad comes close to a moral moment of truth--should he kill his mother, for all their sakes?--and Farnsworth does a good job in this scene, alternately stricken and hopeful. But the tension of the moment is dissipated in a ghostly flashback, which takes us back to the months...
...baseball writers think this is up for grabs. I don't. They say it's between a bunch of burly hitters with absurd power numbers and lofty batting averages. I don't. I hope I'm not being partial by giving this one to Mariano Rivera...
...After the election they go to Israel and Japan--you don't hear anything," Rivera said. "All politicians promise, but they never do anything...