Fire And Ice-T

Protesters demand that Time Warner pull its Body Count album

The 1,100 shareholders who crammed into Time Warner's annual meeting, held this year in Beverly Hills' Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes cuts warning...

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