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Profile of and interview with Koji Suzuki, whose popularity over last decade has come from writing series of horror novels and short stories that have earned him title of Stephen King of Japan; Suzuki is credited as one of creators of new, scarier, psychological horror genre known as J-horror, which has less spatter and much more dread; photo (M)
Boston Red Sox World Series victory gives Fox network badly needed boost, raising it from fourth to first place among viewers aged 18 to 49; Fox hopes to maintain momentum with unprecedented onslaught of reality programming; will devote 60 percent of its total schedule to reality shows until January, when some new scripted series and returning shows go on air; strategy risks killing off genre that has all but saved network television; photos (M)
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column discusses New York Giants linebacker Kevin Lewis, whose recovery of fumble in win against Minnesota Vikings helped give Giants plus-12 turnover ratio (M)
Pittsburgh Steelers defeat New England Patriots, 34-20, ending Patriots record-breaking 21-game winning streak; photos (M)
New York City's Teaching Fellows program gives new teachers opportunity to be mentored by popular and engaging veteran teachers who give advice, support and take over their classes once or twice a week; experimental program, which has become favorite of Schools Chancellor Joel I Klein, is designed to improve poor teacher retention rates; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 27, 2004, covering November 1, 2004.
George Strait
Usher
Nelly
Celine Dion
Mos Def
2004Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (born 1970)[†]
Andre Louis Hicks, known professionally as Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip-hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. Hicks is considered one of the movement's key pioneers that fueled its popularity into mainstream, releasing songs with fast-paced rhymes and basslines that inspired a new style of dance. As the founder of the independent record label Thizz Entertainment, Hicks recorded dozens of albums and gave aspiring rappers an outlet to release albums locally.
2004Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)[†]
Terry Knight was an American rock and roll music producer, promoter, singer, songwriter and radio personality, who enjoyed some success in radio, modest success as a singer, but considerable success as the original manager-producer for Grand Funk Railroad and the producer for Bloodrock.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]