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...stars Sitting in the theater with my hood up and the Gs on my G Unit sneakers still spinning, I was prepared to enjoy the best film of the year. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” 50 Cent’s semi-autobiographical tale of rags-to-rap-stardom, promised everything that I look for in a film: drug-dealing, thugged-out raptors (rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times in a manner suggesting that even...
...those loveably trendsetters widely known as the saviors of indie swagger. And let me tell you, my friends, the “Juicebox” video has enough bravado to fill a bathtub or two. Over a pilfered bass riff, the video bounces between the requisite studio shots and semi-randomized staged hook-up hijinks. Really, “bounces” is an understatement: the slew of sexual scenarios trotted out before our eyes are enough to dizzy the hardiest of fans. Images of a B-movie shot atop an apartment building are interspersed with those...
...references abound on “The Simpsons,” television’s definitive animated comedy. And it’s all because of the members of a mysterious “Castle” located on the corner of Bow, Plympton, and Mount Auburn Streets. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon churns out comedy writers as efficiently as it prints copies...
...Still, it is awfully silly, and before you press on with the album, you will need to ask yourself, Am I a serious person who listens to music for intellectual enlightenment and makes it a point of pride not to dance under any circumstances? Or am I merely a semi-serious person who makes it a point not to be seen dancing under any circumstances...
...police and asio agents had raided the homes of Mohamed Elomar and some of his family. Some of his brothers owned a property in bushland near Canberra that was allegedly used for weapons training, and where a makeshift explosive had been found. Police raids found spent cartridges from semi-automatic weapons, a shot-up vehicle and what appeared to be a home-made mortar bomb...