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...purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks. "I'm that motherf_____ girl!" When the session concludes, Eve softens. Her dog, Spunky J., a teacup terrier so tiny it's more of a cat than a canine, scrambles into her arms. Eve coos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First Lady Of Gangstas | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...biggest struggle"), she nursed dreams of becoming a singer. She soon discovered that rapping got more attention. Eve made it onto the roster of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment label, only to be let go, and then found a home at Ruff Ryders. She reunites with Dre on Scorpion (he produced two tracks). Says she: "I was like, 'He better do something on my album--he dropped me from his label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First Lady Of Gangstas | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Utopia," forces him into a dangerous highwire bicycle act in "Rio." And in a romantic canoe ride for two in "Zanzibar," he lets Dorothy do the paddling. Crosby never apologizes for his dastardly doings, and the plot rarely smites him with a climactic comeuppance. He is the singing scorpion; it's just his nature, though he'll deny it if you accuse him. "You know, way down underneath I'm honest," Bing says in "Utopia." Hope replies, "Yeah, but on top you're a rat." That was Bing in many of his movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

Just one reason to adore Jennifer Lopez is that she'll try anything--and she usually makes it look good. In movies, for instance, she has played a dead Tex-Mex singer (Selena), been hugged by a big snake (Anaconda), come at Sean Penn like a famished scorpion (U-Turn), swapped repartee with George Clooney in a locked car trunk (Out of Sight) and gone into a trance to nab a serial killer (The Cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Chlorotoxin, a substance in the venom of the giant Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potions From Poisons | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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