Word: aaliyah
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...Britney, all the time. The image of the 20-year-old's faux-sexy, Barbiefied prettiness is as pervasive a presence in American homes as the Pope's used to be in Italian ones. Now Spears joins Mandy Moore, in the surprise hit A Walk to Remember, and Aaliyah, in Queen of the Damned--the film the R.-and-B. star made just before her death--in a trifecta of teen queens turned screen queens. Girl power is back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty...
...August 25, 2001, a late summer night with only the slightest chill hinting at the impending autumn, one of the brightest lights in contemporary entertainment burned out in a tragic accident that saddened millions. Aaliyah Haughton, known to most simply as Aaliyah, was on her way back to the United States from shooting a music video in the Bahamas, when the small plane she was riding in crashed, instantly killing her and everyone aboard...
Right before her death, Aaliyah had just finished filming her role in Warner Bros.’ newest feature film, The Queen of the Damned. Based on the novel of the same name by contemporary vampire fiction doyenne Anne Rice, Queen is the second Rice novel to be given the cinematic treatment, the first being 1994’s Interview with the Vampire...
...death and the release of The Queen of the Damned are, thankfully, far more intriguing than mere self-glorification (Augustus) or venality (whoever is behind the 500 posthumous Hendrix albums). For one thing, there is the infinitely dark, even brutal, irony engendered by the fact that Aaliyah plays the title role: the queen of the damned. If, a la Coleridge, we suspend our disbelief a moment (as viewers of Queen must do) and assume the existence of those quaintly dichotomous extra-somatic resting-places Heaven and Hell, then it seems that only the iciest of souls, the most immune...
...Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out / Runners whom renown outran / And the name died before the man.” By claiming Aaliyah after a mere 22 years on earth, death may have won a small victory. Ironically, though, by asserting itself overzealously and taking Aaliyah when her talent and popularity were at a zenith, it may very well have surrendered her to its archenemy and eternal competitor immortality...