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(AP) - O utK ast has long been
considered a groundbreaking force,
their funkadelic sound, rapid-fire
rhym ing and decidedly Southern
flair breath excitement intoa repeti
tious music world and make them
one o f the most popular acts in the
world.
So A ndre "3000" Benjamin and
A ntwan "Big Boi" Patton should
have had little difficulty segueing
into the world o f film, especially
considering the success o f rappers
in Hollywood.
Right?
That's what Big Boi and Andre
thought. But H ollyw ood's initial
response was lukew arm , and it
w ould be alm ost a decade before
they finally got an O utK ast film —
"Idlew ild" — now show ing on
m ovie screens.
"Being young and naive, we
didn't know what it took to m ake a
movie," adm its Big Boi.
M aybe it's because they w eren’t
gangsta rappers looking to play a
version o f them selves in a gritty
shoot-em -up. O r because the kind
o f film they were looking to m ake—
a musical — went out o f style de
cades ago.
O r m aybe producers w orried the
eclectic vibe that m ade O utK ast so
popular in the m usic world
A ndre's w ig-w earing, o ut-there
persona and Big Boi's cool, laid-
back sty le — w ouldn’t translate on
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Songwriter
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Theirlast album, 2003's double-disc
"Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,"
sold m ore than 10 million copies in
the United States, won them an
album o f the year G ram m y and
mountains o f critical praise.
And, perhaps more im portantly.
film.
Few acts are as hot as O utK ast.
it finally launched their joint
m ovie career with "Idlewild," a
1930s Prohibition-era musical.
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Survivor TV by Race Enrages
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(AP) — As
CBS prepares to
launch a new season of the hit
reality show "Survivor," this time
featuring teams divided by race.
New York City officials are en
raged, saying it promotes divisive
ness and are calling for the net
work to reconsider.
"The idea of having a battle of
the races is preposterous." City
Councilman John Liu said Thurs
day. "How could anybody be so
desperate for ratings?"
For the first portion of the
Nashville songwriter David Olney
will perform Friday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.
at M ississippi Studios, 3939 N. M is
sissippi Ave.
O lney has many fans in Nashville
who have recorded his vivid, dra
matic songs, including Emmy Lou
11arris, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury
and others.
His form er band D avidO lney and
the X-Rays opened for the likes of
Elvis C ostello and were featured on
A ustin City Limits.
"This man just might be the great
est singer-songw riter alive in N ash
ville today. Few can touch his raw
em otive pow er," said Music Row 's
Robert K. Oermann.
The upcom ing perform ance will
be a non-sm oking, 21 and over show
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13th season of "Survivor," which
premieres Sept. 14, the contes
tants competing for the $1 m il
lion prize while stranded on the
Cook Islands in the South Pa
cific will be divided into four
teams - blacks, Asians, Latinos
and whites.
Liu, who is Asian-American,
said he was launching a campaign
urging CBS to pull the show be
cause it could encourage racial
di vision and promote negative type
casts.
A release party fo r Brian
W ard’s new C D "W onderbread"
w hich features an eclectic mix o f
funk, jazz, Latin and R&B origi
nals, will he held Saturday, Sept.
9 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Halibut’s
II, 2525 N.E. A lberta St.
Keyboardist Brian W ard will
be joined by Al C riado (Lou
Rawls) on bass and Reinhardt
Melz (Curtis S algado, on drums.
W ard’s music is described as
real, straight from the heart and
soul o f a man w ho loves playing
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tive im pact in polities, the Rev. Al
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T he civil righ ts activ ist faulted
H ollyw ood and the record in d u s
try for m a k in g "g a n g ste rism "
seem cool and acceptable.
"W e have got to get out o f this
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