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- Dec. 10, 1990: Flavor Of The Month
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 105
- Flavor of the Month
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- <p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> They faked their singing; he faked his life. That's the way
- it adds up for VANILLA ICE, the rap artist who is the latest
- recruit for the newly created Milli Vanilli School of
- Falsehoods. Vanilla Ice painted a colorful life for himself,
- claiming he grew up street-tough in Miami, went to the same
- school as rapper Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew and won three
- national motocross championships. But student journalists of
- Miami's Palmetto High, his supposed alma mater, dug up the
- truth. Seems that Vanilla is actually Robert Van Winkle, the
- product of a white, middle-class Dallas suburb who never went
- to high school in Miami or won a single national motocross
- championship. Sure, lots of show-biz bios are embellished, but
- Ice insisted that his rough background contributed to his rap
- artistry. Does suburban life work just as well?
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