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March 10, 1997
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,yugene Bowen
pThly Arts Writer
N otorious B.IG. became the second
prominent hardcore rapper to be
gunned down in a six-month period
ealy Sunday morning in Los Angeles.
Christopher Wallace, better known as
the Notorious B.IG., was fatally shot
outside Petersen Automotive Museum,
wehere a private party was being held in
celebration of Friday's I Ith Annual
Soul Train Music Awards.
"Someone just rolled by (the car in
*ich Notorious B.I.G. was sitting)
and started shooting," witness Kevin
Kim told The Associated Press.
According to Los Angeles Police
Department sergeant Willie Guerrero.
Notorious B.I.G.
i.A. shooting
the shooting occurred after fire
ment officials had broken up t
due to overcrowding.
'It appears that the suspect
along the side of a Chevrolet s
and fired several shots into the
striking Mr. Christopher W
Guerrero said. "Mr. Wallace wa
ferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical
in a private car, and was pron
dead at the hospital:"
Guerrero would not say hou
times or where on his body Wall
shot. However, at least five
punctured the parked car in
Wallace was sitting.
The shooting occurred short
midnight Pacific time, and Wall
depart- pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. He was
he party 24 years old:
"There were hundreds of people when
s drove the shooting occurred, so detectives from
uburban the Wilshire division (of the LAPD) are
vehicle interviewing a lot of people," Guerrero
allace," noted. "We're hopeful we'll have a
is trans- description of the assailants soon."
Center At press time, LAPD officials had
nounced not disclosed any suspects in the case.
"We have no leads and no eyewit-
w many nesses yet," said detective Raymond
ace was Futami, who is in charge of the ongoing
bullets investigation. "We're still interviewing
which people."
But Futami said that the interviews
ly after have been unpromising so far.
ace was "We're not getting a lot of coopera-
tion, and that's a problem," he said.
With the murder of rapper Tupac
Shakur almost six months ago, specula-
tion of the correlation between Shakur's
death at the hands of gunmen in Las
Vegas on Sept. 13, and Wallace's recent
death is sure to abound. Both rappers
made public their extreme dislike for
each other which was magnified
when Shakur boasted last year that he
was having an affair with Wallace's
wife, R&B songstress Faith Evans.
Evans denied the allegation.
Guerrero warned against making any
assumptions.
"There are similarities in the ways
they were murdered," he said. "But it's
still early in the case, so it's premature
to speculate."
But it wasn't too early for University
senior Eugene Williams to let his opin-
AP PHOTO ion be known.
Notorious B.I.G. and Sean "Puffy" Combs at a private party in celebration of the Soul'
Train Music Awards.
AP PHOTO
"I think Notorious B.l.G.'s death had
everything to do with Tupac," Williams
said. "Machiavelli faked his death and
then killed all his enemies. Now Makaveli
(Tupac Shakur's name change on his post-
mortem album "7 Day Theory") is doing
the same. And this makes sense since I
don't believe Tupac's dead."
Problems between Shakur and
Wallace, who also went by the moniker
Biggie Smalls, went beyond charges of
marital infidelity. Shakur accused
Wallace of involvement .in a 1994 rob-
bery, which left Shakur with multiple
gunshot wounds and the loss of more
than $40,000 in jewelry.
Both men also had a checkered past
with the law. Shakur was released from
prison last year pending an appeal of his
sexual assault conviction. Wallace, an
admitted ex-crack cocaine dealer in
Bedford-Tyuyvesant, a tough Brooklyn
neighborhood, was ordered in January to
pay $25,000 to a man whom he alleged-
ly robbed and assaulted in May 1995.
PolyGram Records college represen-
tative D'Andre Boldon also had conjec-
tures of Wallace's recent death.
"It's probably a money thing," he
said. "First Tupac, the top money
maker for Death Row Records, is
killed. Now Notorious B.l.G., the top
money maker for Bad Boy
Entertainment, is killed.
"But it could also be some sort of
retaliation, since many people argue
that Notorious B.l.G. had something
to do with Tupac's murder. You do
have some folks so deep into the East
Coast'/ West Coast thing that they're
taking matters into their own hands.
Either way, though, I think that it's
very sad that the lyrics of the hip-hop
culture are being realized on a serious
tip."
Don Cornelius, executive producer
and creator of the "Soul Train" dance
program, said that the party was neither
sponsored by nor had any connection
with the show.
Wallace, who won the Rap Artist of
the Year award at the Billboard Music
Awards in 1995, did not win anything at
this year's Soul Train Awards. Shakur
posthumously won the Best R&B-Soul
or Rap Album award for "All Eyez on
Me."
Five bullets hit the Chevrolet suburban in which Wallace was sitting.
Stem's 'Private Parts' exposes human side
first film's pure honesty allows Stern to let it all hang out
See Howard Stern's 'Private Parts' for free
teordy Gantsoudes
For the Daily
When Howard Stern first arrived in
New York, Don Imus was the king of
Newi York talk radio. Since his arrival
on' New York radio, however, Stern has
buried Imus in the ratings and never
Ooked back.
Just like every other radio host Stern
has crushed, he has held a funeral for
inus, commemorating the feat. That is
just a small part of the charm that has
niade Stern one of the most unique pub-
li figures in America.
The self-proclaimed "King of All
Media," Howard Stern successfully
branches out from radio, books and
television into film with "Private Parts."
Although Stern tends to come off as an
unfeeling; sexist, racist pig, "Parts"
delves into what made him the wonder-
fully blunt shock jock. The audience
finds out that he is actually human
underneath his thick skin.
The movie opens a few years back.
following Fartman's debut at the MTV
Movie Awards. Stern's worry that
everyone thinks he's a moron sparks
memories of his youth - specifically,
the first time Stern realized he wanted
to be a disc jockey. Loyal Stem listeners
will recognize the tirades and rants of
Stem's father. Shouts of, "Shut up, you
moron!" and the like are sound bites
that long-time fans may recognize from
tapes capturing Stern at work with his
father.
"Parts" is not an inside look at Stern's
radio show. Instead, the film traces how
his show came to be, and more impor-
tant, his relationship with his wife.
Alison (Mary McCormack). Actors por-
tray Howard from age seven through
high school gradua-
tion. However, once R
Stem enters Boston
University to study
communications, it
is pure Howard.
Even though Stern AtE
looks a bit dry
B
behind the ears to portray a college stu-
dent, the voice-over lets the audience
know that it's his movie, and this is how
it should be done.
The documentary style is what
makes this movie seem like one is actu-
ally seeing Sterm's life through his eyes
and those of the people closest to him.
Robin Quivers, Stern's co-star both on
and off the screen, offers plenty of
insight as to what exactly drew her to
Howard when they first met. Jackie
"The Jokeman" and Fred, both loyal
members of Stern's radio show and life,
also appear in the movie, and they are.
wonderful to watch.
The core cast, though not made up of
actors, really lets the audience know
Stern, the man who picks on himself
throughout the movie by saying that he.
is an ugly dork with small genitalia.
Actors certainly would not have been as
convincing as Stern and his sidekicks.
The funniest bit in the movie is the
crew's rendition of George Carlin's
"Seven Words You Can't Say on
Television." One can tell that the cast is
really enjoying themselves telling
Stern's story.
The pure honesty of "Parts" gives the
film its charm. How can Stern have any
charm, you ask? Those who have ever
listened to Stern can most likely testify
to turning him off at times because of
his vulgarity. However, the listeners are
all drawn back to him again and again
- not because of the show's writing.
but because of its spontaneity.
A fantastic scene in the movie occurs
when one frustrated radio executive
asks a pollster why the average Stern
._ _ listener listens, on
E V I E W average, 70 more
minutes to Stern
?rivate Parts than to any other
radio show. The
pollster's response:
riarwood and Showcase "They wanna know
what he's gonna do
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on average, 120 minutes more to Stern
than to any other show, also tune in to
hear what he'll do next.
Not knowing what he will do is what
makes Stern so exciting to behold.
From having radio sex, to the Lesbian
Dating game, to constantly toying with
the FCC, Stern only promises to be
unpredictable. The movie takes an
unpredictable turn itself after about an
hour, and it focuses on Stem's relation-
ship with his wife, taking the audience
away from the more interesting laughs
during the radio flashbacks.
Although it is easy to hate Stern for
whathe says, one cannot dispute that he
is one of the most powerful men in
show business. He is respected not for
what he says, but for what he has
accomplished. Stern has two No. 1
best-sellers, he is the biggest radio per-
sonality in America and his New Year's
Special grossed over $40,000,000 last
year. His listeners do not necessarily
even like what he has to say all the time,
but they continue to read, listen and
watch to find out what he will do next.
Stern's "Private Parts" successfully
reveals this truth.
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