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A Macomb County Circuit Court judge has a message for Eminem's childhood bully DeAngelo Bailey: Rhyme doesn't pay. Judge Deborah Servitto dismissed a $1 million defamation lawsuit against the rapper on Friday in Michigan, according to a court spokesperson. Servitto reasoned that because the verbal jabs at Bailey occurred within the context of song, they were not to be taken as fact. Bailey, 32, filed the suit in December 2001 against Eminem, claiming that the song "Brain Damage," from the rapper's The Slim Shady LP, invaded his privacy and slandered him (see "Alleged Bully From Eminem's 'Brain Damage' Files $1...

“8 Mile” is a good movie. It’s not good because it has great actions sequences, strong character development, interesting foreshadowing, unusual manipulation of the themes or for anything else movie critics often base their opinions on. I enjoyed it because I was expecting it to be another overdone, expensive, Hollywood production; refreshingly, it was not. Also, it brought to light a couple important issues about Democratic politics—possibly inadvertently, as director Curtis Hanson isn’t exactly a card-carrying conservative. There could have been very dramatic sequences with car chases, nauseating violence or a heart-wrenching love story; yet there were none of these...