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...Gore needs any more evidence that he's no longer Prince Albert of the Democrats, he'll get it this weekend. The 2004 presidential shopping season is under way--with the rich Democrats who write big campaign checks browsing for a candidate to support--and Gore may be a too familiar face in a crowded field. In 2000 he had the party's nomination and its fat-cat donors all to himself--but blew the race. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the big-money players will be wooed at two competing events: Gore's "donor retreat" at the Peabody Hotel...
...check the lyrics of Michael Jackson's Bad, Dangerous or HIStory, but so far, R. KELLY is the first pop star to write a song whose only purpose seems to be to ask "Would I be accused of sex crimes if I weren't famous?" Just two weeks after being arrested on 21 counts of child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a 14-year-old, the R. and B. singer released a song explaining how he has been wronged. The soulful tune, which is being played on those stations across the country that have not yet shunned...
...wrote the first 15 pages of The Lovely Bones in a single, unexpected rush that left her shaken. "It was one of those white-heat moments," Sebold remembers. But the struggle wasn't over. Two years into the novel she felt she had to take a break to write Lucky, a searingly unsentimental account of her rape. "I felt like I had a story of my own that was bearing down on me in such a way that it would infuse and therefore ruin Susie's story," says Sebold, who is 39 and lives near Los Angeles with her husband...
...since August, according to SoundScan; Vanessa Carlton, 21, whose first effort, Be Not Nobody, has sold 300,000 copies in its three months of release; and Avril Lavigne, 17, whose first album, Let Go, debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 this month. They're young popstresses who write their own songs, play instruments, claim to wear whatever they damn well please, don't dance, and love nothing better than puncturing others' pretensions. They sing pop rock that's gentle enough for ears reared on Mandy Moore but organic and free-range enough--favoring drums and guitar over synthesizers...
...think about things." Yet she deplores the practices of many of his therapist followers. "They have you coming and going," she says. "If you say, I really was dreaming of a baby, then they say, No, if you dream of a baby, that means you want to write a book. If you want to write a book, they say, You really want a child...