Universal faces the music with ‘Idlewild’

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No wonder Idlewild, the new OutKast movie, has been languishing on the shelf at Universal Pictures for two years. Sure, the spectacle has sheen. And the title is a step up from Hard, A Great Start, which is what it was originally called. But how do you go about marketing a hip-hop-retrofitted Prohibition musical that lurches between cartoon and melodrama by way of genre gore? And bear in mind that the two leads, recording novas André 3000 and Big Boi, are pledged

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