Word: aaliyah
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Seduction and bloodletting are not topics that shy girls tend to bring up. But during an interview in a Manhattan hotel, self-described shy girl Aaliyah manages to touch on both...
...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...
...movies are the new videos. Vocalists who came of age watching Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard see film roles as essential elements of divadom. Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child recently headlined MTV's hip-hop remake of Carmen; next month Mariah Carey will star in Glitter. As for Aaliyah, she has been signed to play a character named Zee in the two upcoming sequels to The Matrix. She is still waiting on plot details in the top-secret productions but says she hopes to get in on the action: "There's nothing like a strong woman who kicks butt...
...Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Detroit, Aaliyah didn't begin her career as the butt-kicking type. She performed on Star Search when she was 11 and failed to win. Closely supported by family (her mom is her manager), she released her first album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, when she was just 15 but was rocked by scandal when reports surfaced that she had secretly married R. Kelly, the producer of her debut, who was 10 years older. Kelly and Aaliyah have since parted ways. When asked if she is still...
...University has not done anything in the way of censuring him," said BSA President Aaliyah N. Williams '02. "For an institution that says it values diversity so much...they should walk the walk instead of just talking...