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• So later this week I'll be going to Buffalo on a business trip. It's sad when you're going to a city that people from Shittsburgh can goof on. Actually, I'm not sure about Buffalo -- I do know that people in my neck of the woods do think they're above Cleveland. And then there's Detroit.

• Speaking of Detroit.

Tone Loc plans to play shows at two bars in the Detroit area that were swindled by a man posing as the rapper's manager.

 

Tone Loc will play April 11 at the Red Dog Saloon in Milford and April 12 at Bumpers in Westland, The Detroit Free Press reports.

 

Red Dog owner Patty McMillan gave about $400 last summer to a man posing as Tone Loc's manager who promised his client would perform at her bar. Authorities say the man also scammed Bumpers out of $1,000.

 

The scam artist hasn't been caught.

 

McMillan and Judy Johnson of Bumpers contacted Tone Loc's real manager and the rapper offered to play the shows for his regular fee.

 

The rapper, whose real name is Anthony Terrel Smith, is known for the hits "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina."

I wonder what Mr. Loc's "regular" fee is.

• I might watch this on DVD some day. I liked "Rounders," and this has Kevin Spacey.

Movie-goers laid their money down on "21," a gambling romp that was the weekend's box-office high roller with a $23.7 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

But what I really wanted to see in this article is how that commie "Stop-Loss" flick fared.

$4.5 million.