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...years ago, Interscope was a small record company that became a huge political problem for its then owner, Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher), by releasing gangsta-rap albums such as Tupac Shakur's 2pacalypse Now. Capitulating to critics, Time Warner severed its joint agreement with Interscope and sold its 50% stake back to Iovine and Field for $100 million. Four months later, the two resold that stake to hit-starved Universal for $200 million. This is not an industry big on morality plays...
...Soul Food at the Sony Meadows 6 in Secaucus, N.J., last week, she ended up doing something she never does: she talked back to the screen. Now, creative commentary during a film is an established custom among some urban moviegoers--catch a showing of Gang Related (the late Tupac Shakur's last film) in a major city, and it's a fair bet the action will not go unremarked on--but Stallings would rather listen. However, during Soul Food, there was just something about that part where the sisters (Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox and Nia Long) start...
...that's what being a public figure is all about. For someone like Princess Diana who suffers a dramatic and untimely death, the tragedy becomes our Rorshach response: Diana, the tragically slain princess. Like J.F.K., the tragically slain President. Or John Lennon, the tragically slain Beatle. Or Tupac Shakur, the tragically slain rapper. Their endings, in a sense, become their beginnings, jumping-off points in the popular imagination. This is unfair and terribly reductive, but death is one of the few things even more reductive than pop culture. Together they're a doozy...
...SHAKUR BOOTY...
Here's a new growth industry: TUPAC SHAKUR litigation. In the year since Shakur's death, at least five suits have been brought against his estate, the most recent by a suspect in his murder. Last week Orlando Anderson filed a personal-injury suit that claimed he was beaten up by Shakur and friends hours before the rap star was killed. Shakur's lawyer, Richard Fischbein, immediately fired back with a wrongful-death lawsuit against Anderson. Earlier, Shakur's mother Afeni won control of Shakur's master recordings from Death Row Records, and settled a claim that the estate owed...