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Marsalis condemned the messages communicated in modern hip-hop music. "When I see what some people are doing in the name of music," Marsalis explained, "it's like somebody coming into my house and feeling on my momma...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marsalis Performs, Teaches Jazz | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...says Universal's marketing president Marc Shmuger, who thus veered the campaign away from cheerleading, played up the rivalry between the black and white squads and changed the title from "Cheer Fever" to the more combative "Bring It On." When the trailer made its debut in front of "Big Momma's House" in June, its response from teenagers, twentysomethings, blacks and whites indicated that they had a crossover hit on their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Line One: Hollywood | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The other winners connected with audiences' fondness for old franchises (the James Bond The World Is Not Enough), twisted family dramas (American Beauty, Double Jeopardy), barnyard critters (Stuart Little, Chicken Run) and black comics dolled up as fat women (Big Momma's House). Moreover, the films without top names usually cost a lot less to make, so the back end was bigger--and not just Big Momma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Much For Star Power | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

These men, like most prisoners, don't get many visitors. "The first people to stop visiting are your buddies who you committed the crime with," explains Cain. "The next is your wife. Your father dies. Your mom and your sister are the only ones who keep coming. Your momma is the only one who loves you." So Cain says his main job is to give the 5,108 hopeless men on this former slave-breeding farm hope, even though 86% of them will stay here for "life and one dark day." The dark day is the one after they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola, La.: The Lessons of Cain | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...keeping down blond, blue-eyed white kids, Eminem turns to another source to crank up his rage: his mom. On the very first line of the very first song, the stuttery Kill You, he starts taking shots: "When I was just a little baby boy my momma used to tell me these crazy things... then I got a little bit older and I realized she was the crazy one." After the release of his 1999 debut, The Slim Shady LP, Eminem's mother filed a defamation suit against him, claiming he portrayed her as a deadbeat. On the new album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Whiter Shade of Pale | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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