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...team was split between tournaments as seven singles players and four doubles teams played at the Yale Invitational, four players competed at the Tom Fallon Invitational at Notre Dame University and captain Tom Blake was the lone Crimson representative at the prestigious National Clay Court Championships in Baltimore, where he was the 10th seed...
...Mariah as Donna Summer. Mariah is always at her best when she seems to be having the most fun. Like the Grande Dame of Disco, Mariah pens her own stuff but makes no great claims as an artist. The girl just wants to put on her mini and shimmy...
Which brings us to the most obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...
...novelist Colette was a very different figure. Indeed, her private life was so irregular by Catholic standards that the church forbade her a Catholic funeral in Notre Dame. The French government, sensing a public outcry, responded with the unprecedented gesture of giving sexy, wild, outrageous Colette a state funeral...
...Brooke Shields and Tawny Kitaen. His past was littered with women he had romanced and rejected, as well as with creditors still hoping to be paid for meals consumed and lodging used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke for xenophobic Britons everywhere when she sniffed, "My only concern is that this Dodi is a foreigner." A writer for London's Daily Mail was cruder, warning Diana that by marrying into the clan of Al Fayeds she would be "trading in one prison...