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April 23, 2013
An LGBTQ teenager from one of New York City's toniest suburbs has sued the Chappaqua Central School District for suspending him for impromptu rap lyrics containing an anti-LGBTQ slur.
The Horace Greeley High School junior, identified as "OJ" in court documents, says he was secretly recorded by his friends while "freestyling" -- in which a rapper improvises an unwritten verse off the top of their head.
OJ was at his friend's house rapping for him and an acquaintance from another school, who is also an amateur rapper. OJ's friends recorded his lyrics and mashed it with lyrics the acquaintance sang to create a single song. He later uploaded to SoundCloud without OJ's knowledge or permission.
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The Who's rock opera Tommy is back on Broadway, and the result is a high-speed, full-throttle revival that leaves audiences so riveted they need hours to unwind.
Unquestionably, there's been a ton of mileage used for this franchise. After the critically acclaimed album's release in 1969, it went on to become a ballet, an opera, a symphonic version, a motion picture (featuring Elton John and Tina Turner), and several iterations of stage shows, first in 1993 (Broadway and national tour), later in 2013 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and now, back on Broadway after a lauded run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre last year. Why all the hype?
When the dogs are out in Luc Besson's sullen crime thriller Dogman, the film darts and dodges artfully like the jazz on the soundtrack. Those tend to be scenes when the titular criminal vigilante -- who's trained his sprawling pack of pooches as thieves, spies, guards, and enforcers -- dispatches his mutts out into the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey on some vital mission, like a crack four-legged special ops unit.
Known to the streets as Dogman, Doug Munrow, vividly portrayed by Nitram star Caleb Landry Jones, lives alone in symbiotic harmony with the dozens of hounds and terriers and shaggy workdogs he calls his children.