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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...limpin’, you know Yalies stay pimpin’”), the sextet of ballin’ Bulldogs shifted their playa-hating focus onto less lofty targets: namely, nubile newlywed singers. In “Toxic Prophet,” group member Citizen Q lays down a semi-coherent rap over the strains of Britney’s “Toxic...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Michael M. Grynbaum, and FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: This Week in Buzz | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Freston's idea is to ride the Zeitgeist, keep his stable of semi-indie divisions productive and use the allure of his hip brands to attract fresh, young (and, pssst, cheap) talent. "I want us to be a place where you build relationships with up-and-coming people," he says, "give them a comfortable home so they can be in your solar system." And then, the dream goes, Paramount can roll out the occasional megamovie, like this summer's War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise (who also has a production deal with Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save Paramount? | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

...execrable laws. (Japanese immigrants were not allowed citizenship until 1952.) One episode focuses on the San Francisco initiative to ban all Asians from public school. Years later, in 1994, California's proposition 187 (later found unconstitutional) banned illegal immigrants from receiving publicly funded services such as schooling. In another semi-comic retelling of an actual incident, Charlie and Frank, working on a farm outside the city, get herded out of town by angry, armed white locals. Another fascinating sequence involves Charlie's decision to arrange for a "picture bride," a woman from Japan who arrives to be married based only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 2/19/2005 | See Source »

...void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album was intermittently comical, and perhaps a guilty treat for former fans of the band, the second half is simply boring...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: Red, White and Crue | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...Uncredentialed, Gannonesque semi-professionals?...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan, Michael M. Grynbaum, and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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