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Janet Jackson: Poetic Justice
In 1993, Jackson turned her attention to acting again and took a part in John Singleton's "Poetic Justice". Playing opposite Tupac Shakur, Jackson played Justice, a young African-American poet and hairdresser. However her performance was not well received. She earned the "Worst New Star" award at the 1993 Golden Raspberry Awards, though she did win two MTV Movie Awards (Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female). Despite the reviews, the movie eventually entered #1 in the box office.
Jackson found better success with the movie as a singer and songwriter rather than an actor when her ballad, "Again", although not on the soundtrack album and only featured on Jackson's
janet. album, gave her both Golden Globe and Oscar award nominations for Best Original Song.
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LiteratureArts, Inc: how the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture
William James Ivey sez, My new book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, is just out (May 10). The idea for Arts, Inc. hit me when I was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during Bill Clinton?s administration. I became convinced that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright extension, and Clear-Channel-style media consolidation were undermining our basic rights to an arts system that really serves the public. Things have only gotten worse. Congress and the FCC might think it?s important to institute hefty fines when Janet Jackson?s breast pops out during a Super Bowl telecast, but it?s shrinking Fair Use, globalized record companies and film studios ? they serve shareholders, not art -- left-behind citizens who lack quality Internet access, and Viacom against Google and Microsoft stalking Yahoo that are the real threats to the vibrant cultural scene that?s essential in our democracy. Arts, Inc. is on sale now. Look for interviews and reviews; I?ll be making the case around the country ? at a performing arts conference in Denver next week, and at the Center for American Progress in DC in mid-July. Link...
Published: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:27:09 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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