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...actress (in last year's action hit Romeo Must Die) and hip-hop soul singer (her third CD, Aaliyah, on Blackground/ Virgin, came out last week) is talking gleefully about a love scene in her next movie. It's Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned, and Aaliyah, 22, plays the boss vampire Akasha. "Akasha is very manipulative," she says. "She and Lestat [a character played by Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire and by Stuart Townsend here] get into a tub, and I seduce him. So I had to kiss him on the chest and draw blood...
USHER Prince Azim, son of the Sultan of Brunei, attended one of the shows on the singer's European tour and, according to a report, proffered the R.-and-B. sex symbol $250,000 worth of gifts. Usher's publicist wouldn't comment on the gifts story, but confirmed that the prince and the rock star met at a concert. Any talk of oil prices...
DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...Shadow of the Dolls (Crown; 320 pages; $22), 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...
...Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel songs, showed him how to wed pop movies with pop music. In 1970, after a brief career in advertising, Bruckheimer moved to Hollywood. As a fledgling producer, he put Blondie on the sound track of American Gigolo. He chose country music singer Faith Hill for Pearl Harbor because "it's an all-American movie, and she's an all-American artist...