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...Winners HIDEO NOMO First Chinese basketball player . . . wait, wrong sport. Japanese pitcher becomes the fourth to throw a no-hitter in both U.S. major leagues TUPAC SHAKUR Posthumous album by the rapper who went down in a hail of bullets in 1996 hits No. 1. Expect John Phillips to top the charts in 2007 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN The Brazilian monkey fights back from near extinction; immediately teams up with Clint Eastwood for Any Which Way You Can sequel...
...Internet and radio hot lines daily to swear they glimpsed you dancing in a nightclub or slipping out of a recording studio--five years after you were laid to rest--it's a sure sign something special is going on. So it goes with the firebrand rapper Tupac Shakur, whose celebrity has swelled into a mystique of near Elvis-like intensity since his death in a Las Vegas drive-by in 1996 at age 25. Shakur was an electrifying rapper whose flashes of gangsta bravado (like the petulant song Hit 'Em Up) were counterbalanced by a gentle sweetness (the tender...
...cult of Shakur consists of much more than imaginary sightings. It has quickly become a commercially potent multimedia phenomenon spinning off millions of dollars and working its way into the cultural mainstream along paths not usually traveled by hip-hop artists. Last week Shakur's new double CD, Until the End of Time (Amaru/Death Row), debuted at the top of the charts. It is his fifth posthumous recording, and the second to hit No. 1. Meanwhile, the New York Theatre Workshop--whose past hits include Rent--has just unveiled a play about him that could spark even more interest...
...Washington, who plays a black classmate at Sara's new school who befriends her, delivers an involving speech about her conflicted feeling about interracial dating. And Fredro Starr (who also performs the movie's theme song, "Shining Through," with Jill Scott, on the soundtrack) is convincing in a Tupac Shakur-ish role as a thug-life-livin', low-riding gangsta who nearly pulls Derek into a life of crime...
...with its narrative tales and its cinematic funk-driven sound, offered a distinct alternative to the tricky bebop gymnastics of the freestyling East Coast. But hip-hop came close to destroying itself in the mid-'90s when that bicoastal rivalry almost turned into a shooting war, as Tupac Shakur - between surviving shootings and spells in prison - threatened the life of Brooklyn rapper the Notorious B.I.G. and both men, former friends, were by the end of 1997 dead in as-yet-unsolved drive-by shootings...