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...business plan fits him like a Roc-A-Fella hoodie. This fall he started Roc Music, the first hip-hop company to produce rock, alternative and R. and B. He's flipping the turntables: over the past decade, pundits have lauded rap for "going mainstream" and finding suburban skater punks far from the smoked-out city neighborhoods where the music was founded. With Roc Music, Damon Dash is formally inviting rock into the hip-hop world. "I've had 20 albums go gold or platinum," he says. "Why can't I have that in rock, soul...
...election campaign is in a higher gear than you might think a year before voters go to the polls. The Bush campaign is on track to raise $200 million, which, perhaps more than anything else, is a testament to the devotion of his supporters. And at Bush's suburban Virginia campaign headquarters, manager Ken Mehlman has taken to asking staff members who knock off early, "Does Howard Dean's staff go home...
...influential rapper Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in his GMC Suburban, and Sean “Puffy” Combs stood atop the bloated corpse to propagate his own mediocre hip-hop lite to the world. And in the past year, The Who have completed one of their most successful tours ever after billing it a “tribute” to recently deceased bassist John Entwistle...
...first episode of 8 Simple Rules (ABC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) since the death of star John Ritter in September. Sitcoms have lost stars before (recently, an ailing Michael J. Fox on Spin City), but 8 Simple Rules is a special case--a light comedy, with Ritter as suburban dad Paul Hennessy, that suddenly has no dad and little to laugh about...
...calls himself Emmanuel. The movie follows Ed and Lois Smart as they butt heads with the police, who are portrayed as wrongheaded and arrogant. They cast suspicion on Ed, and slough off the parents' pleas to look for Emmanuel, the family's former handyman. Dylan Baker, who played a suburban dad pedophile in the darkly comic movie Happiness, is the ideal choice for Ed--he radiates piety or creepiness depending on who looks at him. But while we get glimpses of Elizabeth's captivity--Emmanuel takes her as his second "wife," dressing her like a children's-picture-Bible idea...