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...movie 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...
...opposite direction. When a performer changes his name, he is, in a John Cougar Mellencamp kind of way, either ready for the remainder bin or ready to get serious. The old Marky was never much of a rapper--do a Nexis search and you will not find the adjective Tupac Shakurish used to describe his bland hip-hop work--but in Hollywood these days, he is giving off heat. Wahlberg's performance in The Basketball Diaries (1995) as a drug-addled Catholic school dropout, opposite the De Niro of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio, was surprisingly well received. Just last week...
...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...
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...
TIME: What about speculation that you had something to do with Tupac Shakur's murder...