Word: aaliyah
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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...
...Aaliyah" the album, was one of the best CDs released this year. Aaliyah, the actual person, although charming, smart and sophisticated, was one of my worst, least-revealing interviews. But make no mistake: Aaliyah was one of the most accomplished, most interesting young vocalists around. Her reticence was actually part of her allure, what drew listeners to her. Aaliyah lived in New York City, but she wasn't really comfortable bringing journalists to her place. So we met, a few months ago, in a Manhattan hotel room. Reporters generally hate hotel room interviews. There's generally nothing to say about...
...usual, Aaliyah arrived dressed all in black. She liked to cloak herself in shadow and secrecy, like a latter-day Greta Garbo. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit (real name: Aaliyah Haughton). When she released her first album, "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" back in 1994, she was given to wearing sunglasses in most of her photo shoots and public appearances. Later, she took to sweeping her long black hair in front of one eye, a la Veronica Lake. You could never get a good look at her face, never get a good read...
...anymore. She wouldn't talk about whom she was currently seeing. She wouldn't even talk much about the plot of the two upcoming sequels to the sci-fi movie "The Matrix" that she was signed to do, except to say that the name of her character was Zee. Aaliyah would have made a fine prisoner...
Something old (Huey Lewis), something new (Aaliyah), something borrowed (N.Y.P.D. cops) and, unfortunately, something blew: MTV's 20th-birthday bash. Hours of interviews, swooping cameras over the badly dressed crowd, ads for ladies' shaving gel grudgingly interrupted by musical performances...come to think of it, kind of like watching the music-TV network itself these days. Even TOMMY LEE slurping host CARSON DALY's stubbled puss wasn't a shock--Lee did Puffy Combs at the MTV Movie Awards in June. The five original VJs-- from left, ALAN HUNTER, MARTHA QUINN, J.J. JACKSON, MARK GOODMAN and NINA BLACKWOOD--tried...