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DIED. JOHN WHITEHEAD, 55, R.-and-B. artist best known for his 1979 hit, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...
...crowd was politely receptive, even to a few cringeworthy moments in an opening musical medley by stars of NBC's prime-time: the cast of "Scrubs" singing a very lame rewitten version of "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" ("Ain't no stoppin' us now - we got the hits!"); "The West Wing"'s Allison Janney, in a dress slit up to there, doing "Makin' Whoopie" ("no one's makin' money / On Greg the Bunny!") and most bombastic, "Law and Order"'s Jesse L. Martin (a former star of "Rent") singing "Seasons of Love," backed by a choir of children...
...fight," the pols were at their feistiest: "I was the one who was rivaling Hammer," says Representative CORINNE BROWN of Florida. "All of the members of Congress there were dancing, but some of us really know how to dance." Proceeds from the video and the single, titled No Stoppin' Us--USA, will go to those affected by the Sept. 11 attacks...
...better. So thank you, oh cosmic structure of things, for letting Rawkus Records exist and publicize a group like Black Star so effectively. Thank you, Mos Def and Kweli, for letting us know that "life without thought is just death in disguise;" and that even battle rhymes like "you stoppin us? that's just preposterous like an androgenous mysoginist" can equip us against the extinction we hip-hop fanatics frantically fear...
...participate in the tribute, the TV staff feared that the tight schedule would discourage stars from taking part. The producers need not have worried. Tom Selleck, M.C. Hammer and the entire cast of Roseanne signed up. So did Ben Vereen, who sang a spirited version of Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now and later joined country singer Lee Greenwood and Susan Anton for a heartfelt rendition of America the Beautiful. Said Vereen: "I want us as a country to realize our responsibility to the troops. I don't want Saddam Hussein to see us as divided...