Word: aaliyah
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...death of R.-and-B. singer Aaliyah in a small-plane crash last August was a sad event for everyone in the music world, but it has had a particularly bad aftertaste for one small business: Butlers' Funeral Homes and Crematorium in Nassau, the Bahamas. Loretta Turner, the funeral-home director, told TIME that Virgin Records, the singer's label, is reneging on a verbal agreement to pay the costs of preparation and transport of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight members of her entourage who died in the crash. The mortuary...
...Schuster will publish "Introducing Halle Berry" by prolific TIME senior editor Christopher John Farley. The book will be an essayish bio on the life of Halle Berry, the history of black women in Hollywood and the significance of Berry's Oscar win. Farley, who is also the author of "Aaliyah: More than a Woman" and "My Favorite War: a Novel," first profiled Berry in 1991 when she was in her first major role, the movie "Strictly Business" and has checked in with her from time to time...
...more serious than a tanking album. In addition to the Chicago police investigation, an inquiry has been launched by the sex-crimes unit of the Cook County state's attorney's office. Kelly has drawn scrutiny from such authorities in the past; in 1994 he married his protege, Aaliyah, when she was 15. Aaliyah lied about her age on the marriage certificate, and the marriage was quickly annulled when her parents found...
Unlike the Britney and Mandy movies, Aaliyah's fits into the prevailing guy mode: a threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than...
...makes a grand entrance and a great impression. And she spits out her lines ("Mortals. They mean nothing to me now. They are only food") with a glaring regality. She's a real shrew and a true queen. This, we realize, is star quality--realize with a sigh, since Aaliyah died in a plane crash last August at age 22. The promise she shows here is thus both satisfying and sadly tantalizing...