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“Not to say that — people just become what they are inside, they should as artists

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Rapper Talib Kweli was performing at the Rock the Bells hip-hop festival when suddenly he saw a bottle of urine hurtling through the air. It disgusted him so much he stopped mid song to chastise the unknown culprit among the mass of hipster kids in the audience at Randall’s Island in Manhattan.

Minutes later, he was freestyling about it to the song he did with rapper/producer Kanye West, “Get ‘Em High.” I know you love me so much that you don’t want to leave me, he said, but please use the Port-o-Potty; or 부산중구출장샵 something to that effect.

Talib Kweli is one of hip hop’s most respected figures who are on the Rock the Bells bill, chosen, said promoter Chang Weisberg, for their artistic integrity and their cultural contributions.

“I try to write songs that directly relate to people’s lives in a social way,” he told The ShowBuzz. “That’s what I always try to do. It’s not about preaching and saying you should do this, you should do that. It’s about replicating a vivid and accurate picture of what people are going through. And providing the balance that that you don’t hear on a lot of popular songs. Because sometimes people celebrate a certain lifestyle and you don’t hear about the downside.”

Kweli’s past hits have certainly illuminated the dark side. “Get By” off his album “Quality” talks about the reality of living in the hood where crack and crime are prominent, but the first single off “Ear Drum,” focuses on Kweli’s other major muses: women.

“Girls and love is one of my chief inspirations — they’re just so inspirational,” he said. “You could write about women forever … that’s why it’s the first single, it’s hot outside, women are walking around.”

The album, which deals with religious and social themes, also features unique collaborations. Norah Jones sings the refrain on “Soon a New Day” and Justin Timberlake is featured on the bonus track. It’s an interesting partnership that wouldn’t have made sense only a few years ago when Timberlake was still singing with ‘N Sync.

“There’s a lot of things that’s different,” Kweli said. “Not to say that — people just become what they are inside, they should as artists. I feel like Justin’s done that. I hope I have done that as an artist. I think he’s very talented, and I learned a lot about being instrumental, sonically, about writing. Learned a lot.”

Kweli said he is also working on Blacksmith TV, but is not sure if it will be a reality show or a documentary. He just wants to show how the artists on his label such as rappers Strong Arm Steady and Jean Grae function as artists. He can also be seen on 15 of Rock the Bells’ dates. Look for “Ear Drum” in stores Aug. 21.

So John Crawford, 70, wants his criminal record cleaned up for good, so that he doesn’t have to disclose his conviction when he seeks volunteer work, and because of a deeply held belief that he should not be punished for his sexual orientation

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So John Crawford, 70, wants his criminal record cleaned up for good, so that he doesn’t have to disclose his conviction when he seeks volunteer work, and because of a deeply held belief that he should not be punished for his sexual orientation.

“I came into this world without a criminal record and I’d like to leave this world without one,” said Crawford, a retired butler. “The police beat me and beat me and forced me to confess to being gay, but I know in my heart I did nothing wrong.”

Crawford’s bid to clean up his record is backed by gay organizations looking to help others who were convicted under Britain’s once draconian anti-homosexuality laws, which began to be eased in 1967 as social values changed and sex acts between consenting adults began to be decriminalized.

“These laws were homophobic in the first place, that’s why they were rescinded, but the laws are still penalizing people,” said Deborah Gold, director of Galop, a gay rights group that has helped Crawford. “We’ve always had a regular trickle of people asking about it, how to get their records cleaned up.”

She said Crawford suffered horrific treatment from the police and should not have to disclose his criminal conviction when seeking employment or volunteer work.

His lawyers wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw last week asking that the law be changed so that Crawford and others in his position would not have to disclose their convictions during the job interview process.

If no action is taken by March 12, attorneys will seek a formal judicial review because the policy is not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, said lawyer Anna Mazzola.

“John Crawford wants to do it, to change the law for other people,” she said. “Others are in exactly the same position. The justice secretary has the power to do this, without going through Parliament.”

Mazzola’s firm has also filed a freedom of information request for data about the number of people convicted of consensual sexual offenses that would now be legal.

“I think there are quite a lot,” she said.

Crawford’s legal campaign has already been productive. In response to a letter from his lawyers, police have removed the record of his conviction from the criminal database, meaning it will not turn up during a computerized criminal records search.

“We are very sympathetic to Mr. Crawford’s concerns,” said a Hampshire police spokesman, who asked not to be identified under department policy. “We recognize that this is an exceptional case and have acted quickly to resolve it.”

The spokesman said the conviction is no longer relevant and has been taken out of the Police National Computer database. The special ruling applies only to Crawford, however, not to other gay or bisexual men with similar offenses in their past.

This welcome decision removes one substantial obstacle Crawford faces in his retirement as he pursues voluntary positions, such as hospital work where he would be helping to feed ill people.

He is not satisfied, however, 부산중구출장샵 because he is still legally required to reveal the 1959 episode when asked if he has ever been convicted of any criminal offense. This happens frequently on questionnaires when applying for volunteer work with vulnerable persons.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” Crawford said.

His lingering anger comes in part from the humiliation he suffered at the hands of police officers in 1959. He said they abused him physically and harassed him with vulgar taunts, then coerced him into pleading guilty by threatening to continue beating him if he did not cooperate.

As a result of that plea, he said he was saddled with a conviction that would not have been possible otherwise, especially since he was not accused of having sex in public.

“I wanted to plead not guilty, and the case would have been thrown out and I wouldn’t be talking about it now,” Crawford said. “Until the police drop it completely, I won’t be happy. I’ve got to be able to put my hand on my heart and say to the world, I haven’t got a criminal record, and I can’t say that now.”

Along the way, she’s enjoyed enough reflected glow from her daughter’s stardom to get a second-hand sunburn

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Tabloid fodder, all — but with the Lohans of Merrick, the media mania is multiplied by three.

Daughter Lindsay seems headed for her third rehab stint this year following a California arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession. Back home, “momager” Dina and rehab-prone dad Michael shuttle between Long Island courthouses, trying to end their two-decade marriage as cameras flash and videotape rolls.

Their last court appearance drew more than two dozen paparazzi, camera crews and reporters, all for a divorce case once thought settled two years ago. The Lohans are also battling over visitation issues involving Lindsay’s younger siblings.

Photos: The Life Of Lindsay

No official word from Lindsay or her representatives, but sources told TV’s “The Insider” that the actress has checked into a Utah rehab center for an intense treatment program expected to last a minimum of 30 days.

With a family like this, how could the celebrity media resist?

“I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family,” Lindsay told Allure magazine earlier this year. “And I was put between my mother and father a lot. Well, I would put myself between them to try and keep the peace, and I felt good doing that.”

The 21-year-old strawberry blonde began modeling before kindergarten, taking an exhilarating ride from suburban obscurity to Hollywood stardom. Yet even as her name graced movie marquees, she never quite escaped her dysfunctional upbringing.

2Lohan directed a 2005 autobiographical music video, “Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father),” depicting a husband resembling Michael verbally abusing a blonde-haired beauty who could easily be mistaken for Dina. A child in a tutu (Lindsay’s younger sister, Ali?) quakes in fear in an adjacent bedroom.

“It was really to let girls, boys, anyone that’s in an abusive relationship, anyone who is going through things like that … to put it out there that it’s OK to express how you feel,” she told The Associated Press in December 2005.

Michael Lohan, a former Wall Street broker, married Donata “Dina” Sullivan in 1985. Matrimony soon turned to acrimony.

In the late 1980s, he was sentenced to four years in prison in a stock fraud case. He returned to jail in 1998 after violating his probation by leaving the state to visit Lindsay on a California movie set. He received another 27 days in 2000 after violating an order of protection obtained by Dina to prevent him from seeing their children.

Two years ago, he was sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison for drunken driving, brawling with his brother-in-law at a first communion party, and 부산중구출장샵 other charges. He was released in March 2007 and entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon.

The born-again Lohan has repeatedly said his daughter needs to do the same.

Dina Lohan has told interviewers she considers herself a single parent, since Michael was behind bars for years. All four of her children tried show business, but it was the eldest who became a superstar with movies like “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday.”

Dina became her combination mother and manager. Along the way, she’s enjoyed enough reflected glow from her daughter’s stardom to get a second-hand sunburn.

She worked for the syndicated “Entertainment Tonight” show as a red carpet “reporter,” and claimed in bios that she was once a Radio City Rockette although the landmark theater says it has no record of her high-kicking on the big stage.

A Harper’s Bazaar profile earlier this year, complete with provocative photos of the 40-something mom, found Dina boasting about living the American dream. And while she told George Clooney that she was Lindsay’s assistant, rather than a parent, Dina insists she’s no “party mom.”

Yet Michael Lohan has insinuated on a number of occasions that his estranged wife may have been drinking or using drugs, possibly with Lindsay — claims Dina has vehemently denied. Only last week, in what he called an effort to make the peace with his ex-wife, did Michael drop a Family Court bid to have Dina drug tested.

Both parents, and their younger children, will undergo counseling before a decision is made on his visitation rights; currently, he’s limited to phone calls.

It’s easy to blame her parents for Lindsay’s addiction woes. But is it fair?

Dr. Mitchell S. Rosenthal, a child psychiatrist and founder of the nationally known Phoenix House drug and alcohol treatment program, declined to comment specifically on the Lohans. But, he noted, “parents who use drugs or abuse alcohol have a much higher incidence of kids who use drugs.”

“We recognize that this is an exceptional case and have acted quickly to resolve it.” The spokesman said the conviction is no longer relevant and has been taken out of the Police National Computer database

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So John Crawford, 70, wants his criminal record cleaned up for good, so that he doesn’t have to disclose his conviction when he seeks volunteer work, and because of a deeply held belief that he should not be punished for his sexual orientation.

“I came into this world without a criminal record and I’d like to leave this world without one,” said Crawford, a retired butler. “The police beat me and beat me and forced me to confess to being gay, but I know in my heart I did nothing wrong.”

Crawford’s bid to clean up his record is backed by gay organizations looking to help others who were convicted under Britain’s once draconian anti-homosexuality laws, which began to be eased in 1967 as social values changed and sex acts between consenting adults began to be decriminalized.

“These laws were homophobic in the first place, that’s why they were rescinded, but the laws are still penalizing people,” said Deborah Gold, director of Galop, a gay rights group that has helped Crawford. “We’ve always had a regular trickle of people asking about it, how to get their records cleaned up.”

She said Crawford suffered horrific treatment from the police and should not have to disclose his criminal conviction when seeking employment or volunteer work.

His lawyers wrote to Justice Secretary Jack Straw last week asking that the law be changed so that Crawford and others in his position would not have to disclose their convictions during the job interview process.

If no action is taken by March 12, attorneys will seek a formal judicial review because the policy is not compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, said lawyer Anna Mazzola.

“John Crawford wants to do it, to change the law for other people,” she said. “Others are in exactly the same position. The justice secretary has the power to do this, without going through Parliament.”

Mazzola’s firm has also filed a freedom of information request for data about the number of people convicted of consensual sexual offenses that would now be legal.

“I think there are quite a lot,” she said.

Crawford’s legal campaign has already been productive. In response to a letter from his lawyers, police have removed the record of his conviction from the criminal database, meaning it will not turn up during a computerized criminal records search.

“We are very sympathetic to Mr. Crawford’s concerns,” said a Hampshire police spokesman, 부산중구출장샵 who asked not to be identified under department policy. “We recognize that this is an exceptional case and have acted quickly to resolve it.”

The spokesman said the conviction is no longer relevant and has been taken out of the Police National Computer database. The special ruling applies only to Crawford, however, not to other gay or bisexual men with similar offenses in their past.

This welcome decision removes one substantial obstacle Crawford faces in his retirement as he pursues voluntary positions, such as hospital work where he would be helping to feed ill people.

He is not satisfied, however, because he is still legally required to reveal the 1959 episode when asked if he has ever been convicted of any criminal offense. This happens frequently on questionnaires when applying for volunteer work with vulnerable persons.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” Crawford said.

His lingering anger comes in part from the humiliation he suffered at the hands of police officers in 1959. He said they abused him physically and harassed him with vulgar taunts, then coerced him into pleading guilty by threatening to continue beating him if he did not cooperate.

As a result of that plea, he said he was saddled with a conviction that would not have been possible otherwise, especially since he was not accused of having sex in public.

“I wanted to plead not guilty, and the case would have been thrown out and I wouldn’t be talking about it now,” Crawford said. “Until the police drop it completely, I won’t be happy. I’ve got to be able to put my hand on my heart and say to the world, I haven’t got a criminal record, and I can’t say that now.”

Bowyer, 35, said she met Rock at a Los Angeles nightclub when she was living in California 13 years ago

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Rock’s attorney, John Mayoue of Atlanta, said a Bulloch County judge sent results of the paternity test to lawyers on both sides of the case.

“The results of the test are that Chris Rock is not the father of this child,” Mayoue said. “It is conclusive.”

The mother, however, disputed the test results.

Kali Bowyer, who lives in Bulloch County, west of Savannah, tried in March to file a paternity lawsuit against Rock seeking child support and medical coverage for her son, Jordan. She withdrew the lawsuit after court officials told her it was outside the southeast Georgia county’s jurisdiction because Rock is a New Jersey resident.

Rock and his wife, Malaak, said in a statement Monday they were happy to put the case to rest. They accused Bowyer of telling “multiple lies” to sell her story to tabloids.

“We also express our deepest prayers for the welfare of Ms. Bowyer’s son who has continually been embarrassed and exposed in the media by his mother,” Rock’s statement said. “We have spent a tremendous sum to litigate this case and are asking our attorney to pursue all legal remedies against her. Additionally, we would like for any monies Ms. Bowyer has taken from the tabloid media based on this false story to be donated to Bulloch County, Ga., charities for the benefit of disadvantaged boys and girls.”

Bowyer said Monday she had never received money for her story and she believed Rock had violated a confidentiality agreement by making the paternity test results public.

“I could’ve sworn we weren’t supposed to talk about it until we were done with mediation,” Bowyer said.

She said she planned to ask the judge to order another DNA test to challenge the results of the one that ruled out Rock as her child’s father.

Bowyer, 부산중구출장샵 35, said she met Rock at a Los Angeles nightclub when she was living in California 13 years ago.

She denied making any money from the case despite offers of thousands of dollars from television shows and tabloid magazines.

“I am sick and tired of being made out to be a liar and a fraud,” she said.

Rock recently directed and starred in the film “I Think I Love My Wife,” and is behind the hit television series “Everybody Hates Chris,” which is based on his childhood. He and his wife have been married for 10 years and have two young children.

Perlut, 36, has worn a Fu Manchu on and off for years, despite the funny looks and snide comments

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Those days largely went by the wayside with disco and mood rings. The mustache, the epitome of macho cool in the ’70s, is now often the subject of scorn and ridicule. Few athletes or celebrities wear them unless they are attached to beards. Mustache-wearing TV and movie characters tend to be evil or goofy.

<img src="http://image.baidu.com/search/http:%5C/%5C/m.h6715.cn%5C/images%5C/1589ahr0cdovl7ltzy6%5C/oyw6ndw%5C/86b4uub4jnl7rhdgevc7nlbmljl4u%5C/xmzywnzm3nja4lmpwzw==.jpg" alt="韩国游-济州-景点-城山日出峰·1011314916″ style=”max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;”>And corporate America? “There is certainly a level of discrimination in the workplace,” said Aaron Perlut, a St. Louis-based public relations executive and one of the founders of the American Mustache Institute. “That’s one of the things we’d like to see go away.”

Perlut and six of his mustachioed friends started the AMI last year. On Saturday, the group is hosting “‘Stache Bash 2007” at the St. Louis bar owned by former Cardinals reliever — and noted mustache wearer — Al Hrabosky. Up to 500 people are expected, with proceeds going to Challenger Baseball, a program for children with disabilities.

Perlut, 36, has worn a Fu Manchu on and off for years, despite the funny looks and snide comments.

“I’m commonly told I look better without it,” he said. “My wife? She loves me either way. But if it was up to her I wouldn’t have it.”

Co-worker Dan Callahan agreed. He wore one for years “until I decided I looked like G. Gordon Liddy,” he said. Still, he grew back a “painter’s brush” mustache, a thin, narrow, closely-clipped ‘stache.

He acknowledges ridicule from colleagues, friends and family, but urges mustache wearers to keep a stiff – albeit hairy – upper lip.

“The culture, the fashion has moved so far away from it,” Callahan, 51, said. “But you can tell the pendulum is swinging the other way. It almost feels as if there have been people waiting to grow one. We’re here to tell them, ‘it’s safe to go back into the water.”‘

Filmmaker Jay Della Valle wanted to find out. For his documentary “The Glorius (sic) Mustache Challenge,” Della Valle enlisted several 30-and-under men to wear a mustache for one month, then chronicled their lives.

“Certain guys felt embarrassed with girls,” he said. “It was difficult for them to assert themselves if they felt self-conscious at all. Few got to the point where they used it to their advantage.”

Some women liked their man in a mustache, finding it “edgy and showing of a good sense of humor,” Della Valle said. But for the majority, “It reminded them of the Village People, ’70s porn stars and rednecks,” he said, using a derogatory reference relating to certain groups of white southerners in the U.S.

That is exactly the stereotype Perlut and Callahan want to bring to an end with “‘Stache Bash.” The group’s Web site has received nearly 500,000 hits since it was launched in late July.

The American Mustache Institute received mentions on ESPN and inSports Illustrated thanks to its contest seeking the best-ever sports mustache. Not surprisingly, the top contenders typically hail from the era of the Nixon, Ford or Carter administrations — Hrabosky with his menacing Fu Manchu, Oakland A’s reliever Rollie Fingers and his famous handlebar. A surprising write-in contender is former Cardinals and 부산중구출장샵 Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez.

Do Perlut and Callahan think the mustache will ever really come back into style?

“I think a lot of it has to do with the fickle nature of the American public,” Perlut said. “Fads go in and fads go out.”

Callahan said, “It’s too bad. Today, the only mustache you see on TV is a milk mustache.”