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...criticized him for his homophobic lyrics. And yet this fall Eminem managed to win over even p.c. middle-aged white critics with his semiautobiographical movie, 8 Mile, playing a rapper from Detroit who defends gay men and pulls himself up by his vocal cords to escape wage-slave trailerdom. The movie's implicit premise is one that our public figures rarely acknowledge: that a poor white kid has more in common with poor black kids than with more-well-off white kids--that is, that class still matters in America. His obnoxiousness aside, Eminem is the first music superstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Fat Year in Culture | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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