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Park Plaza Dr. Suite 115 Vancouver, \ \ A 9K6K4 Auto Accident Injuries/ On The Job Injuries • • • • Performances Steal BET Awards Spotlight (AP) - Stevie Wonder showed off his dance moves. Will Smith arrived in a horse-drawn carriage and The Fugees got together again. Extravagant perfor mances and on-stage antics largely stole the spotlight from the winners at Tues day night’s BET Awards - it the win ners showed up at all, that is. Among the eight no-shows was top honoree Kanye West, who earned tro phies for male hip-hop artist and video of the year for "Jesus Walks." W est’s discovery, piano man John Legend, picked up his trophy for new artist and performed "Ordinary People” and “My Cherie Amour” with Wonder, who later danced while singing his new single, "So What The Fuss.’ Soul diva Alicia Keys hoisted her award for female R&B artist toward the Stevie Wonder, right, performs with an unidentified audience and declared: "This is for all vocalist during the 5th annual BET Awards on Tuesday, my people who are really try i ng to dream June 28 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo) big dreams.” The show kicked off with a surprise reunion o f The Fugees, who haven’t recorded an album together since 1996’s "The Score” and haven’t even been on speaking terms in recent years. Hosts Mr. and Mrs. Smith - that’s Will and Jada Pinkett - arrived on-stage at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre in a horse-drawn carriage with spinning custom rims. Denzel W ashington’s wife Pauletta accep ted an aw ard h o noring the couple’s charitable endeavors, and Keys presented R&B and gospel leg end Gladys Knight with a lifetime achievement trophy. Knight then performed three songs including the tune that got her and the Pips their first Grammy, “Neither One O f Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye).” Missy Elliot Changes Creative Tune (A P) - R apper, sin g e r and su p e rp ro d u c e r M issy E llio t has kept her p latin u m statu s fo r a l m ost a decade by g iv in g fans the u n p re d ic ta b le , the unheard, the unfathom able each tim e out. W ith surreal, sci-fi sounding gro o v es, o u t-th e re ly ric s and trippy videos, E lliott has throw n liste n e rs fo r a loop so m any tim e s th a t w h e n so m e th in g in to x ic a tin g ly w eird m akes its w ay to the rad io , you can a l m ost guess it’s E lliott. “ She’s totally creative - she’s ju st pushed the envelope o f hip- hop and music period a lot farther than ever before,” says A licia Keys, who toured with Elliott and Beyonce last year. But as “T he C ookbook,” is re leased soon, E lliott is giving her fans the unexpected once again by - gasp! - sounding a little more Still, for those looking for that “ w h e r e - d id - th a t- c o m e - f r o m ” groove that defies categorization, E lliott has gone and tinkered with the recipe. W hile right-hand man T im baland is still providing hyp notic beats, for the first time Elliott has branched out, tapping the N eptunes and other producers to stretch her sound. T im baland also “w anted to try other people to see how w ould it so u n d .” So w ith “ T he C o o k b o o k ,” w hich boasts collaborations with M ary J. Blige, Slick Rick, Ciara, Fantasia and Mike Jones, E lliott m ade sure she took the tim e to get Missy Elliott performs during the 5th annual BET Awards on it right. As she strokes her new “baby,” Tuesday, June 28, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo) worked for its time - the gimmicky, a Y orkie puppy nam ed Poncho conventional. “ It’s more to the center,” says character ’M issy ,’ but now , it’s sleeping in her lap, she also cites E lliott, flashing a grin as she de like with music changing so much, “different experiences in your life that you w ant to talk about.” scribes her latest change-up. “ It it’s more in that center lane. Will Smith Urges Rapper Role Models (AP) - W ill Smith made a big introduction at last w eek’s BET Awards: G angster rappers, meet the rest o f the world. Smith told The Associated Press he hopes to impress the global significance of U.S. black culture on the show ’s audience and artists. Smith, co-host o f the show with wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, won the first rap Grammy in 1988 for his squeaky-clean “Parents J ust Don ’ t Understand." He said he wants hip-hop artists to recognize their importance and shift away from Smith maintains on his latest album “Lost And Found” that his nice guy image has worked against him. “Black radio, they won’t play me though,” he raps in one song. “Guess they think that Will ain’t hard enough. Maybe I should just have a shootout ... just ignorant, attacking, acting rough. I mean then, will 1 be black enough?” thuggish themes. “ It’s real important to have bal ance o f the imagery. Yes, there are people who fire guns in the street, but there’s also doctors who go to work in those areas to feed their children,” Smith said. He picks out Common and Mos Def as other artists “that real ly have something to say that don’, neces sarily fit on the ’ 106th & Park' top 10.” Now more well-known as a movie star (“Men in Black,” “Bad Boys,” “Independence Day” ) than rapper, th e 3 6 -y e a r-o ld Will Smith performs his hit single “Switch ” before the start o f game one o f the NBA finals in San Antonio, June 9. (AP Photo) DOUBLE J TIRE CENTER /V£W • USED • Fully Guaranteed Taxes, Mounting & Balancing Included Back Pain N eck Pain H eadaches M assage Reality Show Features Bobby and Whitney (A P) - “ Being Bobby B row n,” which features Brown and his w ife, pop song stress W hitney H ouston, recently pre m iered on Bravo, cable channel 181. In an in terv iew on “ D ate lin e N B C ,” Brow n said he decided to allow cam eras to fo llo w him fo r six m o n th s b ecause “ i t ’s easy fo r peo p le to ju s t have the freed o m to be able to say th in g s about m e, and m e not say a n y th in g . 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He explained the bill to others in the G eneva’s shop, and when Portland C h ief o f Police Derrick Foxworth cam e in a week later for his haircut, he heard about it. “ I think that whole interaction played a significant role in the city o f P ortland opposing the m easure," Shields said. H e’s hoping to make an impact on more than just Portland, though. He recently introduced a “Home ward Bound" memorial urgingCon- gress to pass a resolution stating a definite timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. He believes it will send a mes sage to W ashington and other leg islatures nationwide that strategies need to be altered to halt further bloodshed of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens. “They have overthrow n a des picable dictator. They have ush ered in Iraq's first elections. They have secured a victory. And now, w e 're here to say that the H om e ward Bound Act is a way to bring our troops hom e,” Shields said. Back in north and northeast Portland, his main hopes for the future aren’t grandiose, ju st rea sonable and fair. He sim ply wants those who grew up in the area to be able to afford to stay here, that everyone has a fair shot at local living wage jobs, for im proved school and health care funding and more fairness in crim inal ju s tice issues. And he's working on it.
