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...knows from experience how hard the scandal machine - fueled by money, vengeance and newspaper sales - is to switch off. Burrell seems not quite to grasp the tough neighborhood into which he has strolled. His agent says he is just a "very nice, nice man," and indeed there is an odd innocence about him. He wants to return to his flower shop, reclaim his trove of Dianiana from the police and weigh a recent offer to be a game-show host (Working title: What the Butler Saw.) But like his old boss, he may find fame has other plans...
Suddenly, the girl’s eyes grow wide and she slams the brakes. Her smile implodes. Her momentum carries her right past me, and as we pass each other, she mumbles an awkward “Hi.” I shrug. Odd girl, I think to myself. And then, frowning, it occurs to me that over the past two months I’ve run into more odd people than I had in the previous two years, back when?...
Jurassic 5’s sophomore effort Power in Numbers is slightly darker and more mature than their debut Quality Control. Although their patent irreverence remains a major part of their work, often beginning songs with silly dialogues or injecting odd samples from movies or television shows, the content has taken a more serious turn. Veering sharply away from the well-traveled path of mainstream rap, this album has a very high proportion of tracks with fairly deep messages. “Freedom,” the second track, introduced by the 53-second first track “This...
...odd name for an album that is painted in such dark colors) certainly has its moments. The lead single, “The Barry Williams Show” is a funky, lip-curling take on Jerry Springer-style talk shows, featuring the priceless line, “My lover stole my girlfriend / Keep beating up my ex / I wanna kill my neighbour / My daughter’s selling sex / My SM lover hurt me / My girl became a man / I love my daughter’s rapist / My life’s gone down the pan… / What...
...have heard no suggestion that I have not heard 20-odd years ago,” he says. “It is not that at the moment of the foundation of the Core these issues were overlooked...