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October 15th, 2005
Toronto -- "Put down the gangsta rap and pick up the gangster poetry"
was the theme of a highly anticipated one-hour meeting between
independent film laureate Michael Madsen and Hip-Hop activist Raoul Juneja
(a.k.a. Deejay Ra), arranged by the 'RebelFest' Film Festival Directors at
the Royal York Executive Hall September 11th in Downtown Toronto.

Juneja, considered "One of the entertainment industry's most vocal and
effective campaigners" (FilmInk), launched a Michael Madsen 'grassroots
media' tribute with PocketEssentials and Crash Cinema last week through
his Lyrical Knockout Entertainment company, commemorating the 'Sin
City' and 'Kill Bill' actor's Toronto visit.

Recording an exclusive high school and campus radio PSA in addition to
planning new educational-themed initiatives for his latest poetry
collection and audiobook, Madsen now joins fellow Tarantino alumni Robert
Forster and American literary legend Elmore Leonard as a supporter of
Juneja's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging movie screenplays and
music themed books to students uninterested in reading as alternative
literacy developing methods in the midst of entertainment media's
strongest digital age.

Madsen's former co-stars in over 100 productions since 1982 have
included Al Pacino, Ben Kingsley, Uma Thurman, Mario Van Peebles, Kristanna
Loken, and most memorably Harvey Keitel in Quentin Tarantino's
"Reservoir Dogs," who presented Madsen with his 2005 Equinoxe Rebel Award at the
'RebelFest' Toronto Finale.

For more about Michael Madsen or Deejay Ra visit MichaelMadsen.com and
LyricalKnockout.com respectively.

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