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POP/ROCK - Jan. 2, 1991

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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

Rap May Be Scrapped: Reacting to a shooting incident at a rap concert last week, Anaheim officials have asked the owners of the Celebrity Theatre to ban rap performances there. A trustee of the Freedman Foundation, a nonprofit group that owns the theater, met late Monday night with the managers who lease the facility to discuss the issue. Officials declined comment on the meeting. The proposal to bar rap performances comes after police were forced to clear the theater Thursday when concert-goers clashed, leaving a 16-year-old boy wounded as he waited to enter the sold-out show featuring popular rap entertainers Ice Cube and Too Short.

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