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...soul singer Aaliyah, 22, died in a plane crash on Saturday. She was reportedly on her way back from the Bahamas to the United States. She had a lot going for her: her last film, "Romeo Must Die" was a box office hit; she had recently completed work on "The Queen of The Damned," a horror film based on the book by Anne Rice. She was also set to co-star in two upcoming sequels to the sci-fi film "The Matrix...
...harshest elements. What becomes a legend most? Suffering. A childhood of deprivation; liaisons with powerful, possibly dangerous men; career triumph soured by personal despair. A life of melodrama makes the diva more human, thus more godlike, to her fans. A catchy moniker helps: Callas...Garland...Lady Day...Whitney. The singer in the news last week was no exception, seemingly groomed by her parents for divadom. For a start, they called the kid Mariah...
Lately a hurricane of troubling publicity has swirled around Mariah Carey--the top-selling female singer of the '90s, with more than 140 million albums and singles sold. Barely a month before the release of her first starring movie, Glitter, and an accompanying CD, Carey, 31, was admitted on July 25 to a Westchester County, N.Y., hospital suffering from what her publicist, Cindi Berger, calls "an emotional and physical breakdown." The tabloids said Carey entered the hospital with her hands bandaged, as if she had attempted suicide--an account denied by the ambulance driver who took her there...
...Song Yet to Be Sung, his first new album in five years, Farrell considered forming yet another provocatively named band but ultimately decided to launch a solo career instead. "I've always titled projects as if they were a movie," says the 42-year-old singer, as wiry and wild-eyed as ever. "This time I didn't want to share musical responsibility. It was simply mine...
...opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...