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Both rappers and music execs are clamoring for solutions. Russell Simmons recently made a tepid call for rappers to self-censor the words nigger and bitch from their albums. But most insiders believe that a debate about profanity and misogyny obscures a much deeper problem: an artistic vacuum at major labels. "The music community has to get more creative," says Steve Rifkin, CEO of SRC Records. "We have to start betting on the new and the up-and-coming for us to grow as an industry. Right now, I don't think anyone is taking chances...
...jump through. This time around, instead of filling in forms and submitting paperwork to qualify as a bidder, those interested in participating merely have to register at this week's competition to qualify. Among the front-runners is iRobot, the same Massachusetts-based company that makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner...
...film, written by 11 guys, and directed by David Silverman in the old-fashioned, hand-drawn way, looks surprisingly spiffy on the big screen. It's rated PG-13 (for brief frontal nudity), but vulgarity was never the envelope The Simpsons pushed. Its goal was density, comic congestion, the vacuum-packing of cool gags and grotesque-sympathetic characters into the shortest span possible...
...same time, there was a growing vacuum in the movies that left an opening for TV. It's no coincidence that most of these new antiheroines are played by movie actresses of a certain age in a business where meaty roles go to twentysomethings or to Meryl Streep. That problem, Hunter says, is exacerbated by the decline of middle-budget, character-based films: "Now movies are made for $2 million, or they're made for more than $60 million." To Driver, the variety of roles on cable outweighs any stigma. "I'm glad to be doing TV," she says...
...WORKS The clingy BioSuit compresses the body to protect it from the strong vacuum of space. For almost 40 years, NASA has relied on gas pressurization, which uses force to create an Earth-like atmosphere within the suit...