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...DIED. AALIYAH, 22, sultry R.-and-B. singer; in a plane crash in the Bahamas. Aaliyah and seven members of her crew were en route to Florida after shooting a music video when their twin-engine Cessna crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff. Her career, which began at age 11 with an appearance on TV's Star Search, included two platinum albums, a third album released in July and an appearance in last year's movie Romeo Must Die. The Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised star was also set to appear in two sequels to The Matrix...
When they fly, most people don't count among their carry-ons video-production equipment--or 300-lb. bodyguards. Though the investigation into the crash of the plane carrying R.-and-B. star Aaliyah is not complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed...
...things hung over the proceedings. One was the sad death of Aaliyah (the talented young hip-hop soul singer passed away in an airplane accident only recently). The other was the sad death of pop music (Britney Spears and 'N Sync, two flagrantly untalented teen acts, were slated to perform...
...good stuff first. The tribute to Aaliyah was classy - Missy Elliot and other stars expressed their grief directly, touchingly and sometimes without a script. The tribute might have had more impact, however, if one of the stars in question had performed a song as well. It was a curiously unmusical moment for a memorial to a singer. But after it ended, Jamie Foxx, the host of the evening (the verdict: better than the Wayans Bros. but not as good as Chris Rock) did a cool, classy job of lifting the spirits of the crowd during the commercial break...
...Aaliyah was different. So as I left my interview with her, just a few months ago, this thought was running through my head: this singer is only going to get more interesting as she gets older...