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OUTPUT: 17:28 USER: JVAUGHN BEEBROAD MASTER 06-26-02 PAGE: 1 SACBEE SCENE 1 MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK sacbee i fes ty le ins ide SCENEThe SacramentoBee MEDIA SAVVY By J. Freedom du Lac Flavor Flav, center, and Chuck D. of Public Enemy join other rap pioneers at New Hammerstein Ballroom for the Hip Hop tribute concert earlier this month. The concert will be broadcast on VH1 at 9 and 11 tonight. SACRAMENTO BEE PHOTOGRAPHY JOSE LUIS VILLEGAS Photo gallery For more photographs from the Hip Hop show, go to www.sacbee.com/links.

columnist Kelly Richardson will answer your questions beginning at 7 tonight. Log on now to post your questions at www.sacbee.com/chats.COLUMNS E3 COMICS E6-E7 TELEVISION E4 Right stuff fills the air in afternoon truly believed that he would walk again in my lifetime; but, I guess someone else has other plans for Debra Harrison Sacramento Readers share their memories of Christopher Reeve. Page E2 By Chris Macias BEE POP MUSIC CRITIC NEW YORK 1975 in theSouth Bronx, and the13-year-old who will become GrandWizzard Theodore is holed up in his room, getting busy on a set of turntables. it down or turn it his mother shouts. A rhythmic cuts through the speakers as she huffs away.

The future hip-hop pioneer has just invented scratching. Now at 41, GrandWizzard Theodore is still living in the Bronx, still scratching. Most days packing his record crates into the trunk of his Volvo to play a club or teach at Scratch DJ Academy. Hip-hop pays his rent, but there is no Theodore clothing line, platinum record collection or Bentley with 22-inch rims. Hip-hop celebrates its 30th birth- day next month, still as hyper as a teenager.

a youth-oriented culture revolving at rpm with breakdancers spinning, rappers HIP-HOP, back page, E8 Rap is finally scratching its way toward old-school nostalgia Members of Chic from left, Audra Lomax, Nile Rodgers and Sylver Logan strike a pose before the VH1 show. Rapper and producer P. Diddy opens the show at the Hip Hop P. Diddy is one of most successful figures, with a net worth estimated at $315 million. Fat Joe enters the stage during a rehearsal for Hip Hop Fat Joe and his Terror Squad have a current hit with By Hal Boedeker ORLANDO SENTINEL Christopher Reeve won admiration first asthe high-flying Superman and later as a wheelchair-bound activist.

Yet he was equally adept behind the scenes and savored directing the true story of a para- plegic girl who graduated from Harvard. we can tell this one story really well about what like to live with paralysis and have that seen in a dramatic form around the world, that would be a really worthwhile he said in July. Brooke Ellison will premiere Oct. 25 on But greatest contribution was his example of hope. He transformed the tragedy of a 1995 horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed into a per- sonal crusade for spinal-cord research.

His death Sunday at age 52 stunned the world because he had remained an optimistic, vital REEVE, page E2 DC Comics Inc. Christopher Reeve in his most famous role as Superman. Christopher Reeve had will of steel At last White HouseRadio Days, when the bigdogs of the talk-radio world descended on The Dis- trict, Tom Sullivan made him- self a new friend: Sean Hannity. walked into the White House, and there are all these radio people standing Sullivan says. Sean came up to me and said: you Tom He told me he really likes my fill-in work for Rush (Limbaugh).

In fact, he told me I was his Now, the surging syndicated star is both friend and foe to Sullivan. With Talk 650 (KSTE AM) having handed its noon-to-3 p.m. slot to Hannity, early-afternoon dominance on KFBK (1530 AM) faces a formida- ble threat. an odd thing, Sullivan says, given that the competition is coming from his own em- ployer: Talk 650 and KFBK are owned by Clear Channel, the DU LAC, page E5 Come chat with me Section TUESDAY October 12, 2004.