Word: christinas
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...Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro shake hands MTV Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera hold hands...
...stars are blessed with powerful vocal instruments. But that's not what many fans are looking for. In the '00s, they want to see their favorite performers get down, back that thing up, shake their bonbons, dance. "I want to be an all-around entertainer," says teen singer Christina Aguilera, who is actually blessed with a powerful vocal instrument but is nonetheless honing some salsa steps for her upcoming tour. When the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards are held this week in New York City, the most hotly contested category won't be Best Video of the Year (D'Angelo...
...cutting-room floor. In Aguilera's video Come On Over (All I Want Is You), Landon created a part in which male dancers push female dancers' heads down to waist level before the women playfully slap their hands away. It was a little risque for teen pop. "Britney and Christina are both at the age where they don't want to be little girls anymore," says Landon, who has worked with both. "But their audience is still made up of little girls. So sometimes you have to cut back...
...Backstreets may see the most traffic, but there are plenty of other roads worth exploring this season. Pop singer Samantha Mumba, a half-Irish, half-Zambian 17-year-old, releases a promising debut in October, and 19-year-old diva Christina Aguilera reconnects to her Latin roots with a Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo, out Sept. 12. Rock will have its place, with U2 and the Wallflowers readying new CDs, and soul will have its day, with Erykah Badu making a welcome return and Sade making a welcome and long-awaited one. As for hip-hop, the Atlanta-based...
First novels seldom attract financial interest from Hollywood, but when they do, as in the case of Peter Benchley's Jaws or Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, the selling points tend to be strong characters and a plot long on tension and surprises. That's a fair description of Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth (Doubleday; 338 pages; $23.95), which probably explains why, even before its publication, Miramax bought the screen rights for director Wes Craven. Readers should not wait for the film version, though, because this unusually deft and assured first novel conveys a good deal more than thrills...