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Miyamoto was pregnant at the time of the divorce, and a third son, Yoshinaga, now 18, was raised by her and has never met his father. One day this summer, Yoshinaga visited L.D.P. headquarters, where a giant picture of Koizumi was plastered on a billboard six stories high. Yoshinaga made his way to the gift shop in the lobby, bought a poster of his father, took it home and hung it on his bedroom wall. "I hope after he is Prime Minister, we can both see him again," Miyamoto says. "My son understands. He says, 'It is my father...
...that the Isley Brothers have once again made the Billboard Top 200 chart, you tell us that it's "time to forgive" them for their party anthem Shout [PEOPLE, Aug. 27]. Is forgiveness required for the sin of producing one of the most justifiably popular, ebullient and long-lived hits of the '60s? Should we forgive Beethoven for his Ode to Joy? SALLY FRENKEL New York City...
...been almost four years since Anthony's last salsa album, the Grammy-winning Contra La Corriente, was released. The fans are restless. "There's no question that he has made salsa more exciting," says Leila Cobo, Billboard magazine's Caribbean and Latin American bureau chief. "Now the challenge will be conquering the mainstream audience." That's exactly what he aimed for during the late-'90s, Ricky-and-Jennifer Latin-crossover blitz. In 1999, after a career singing in Spanish, Anthony released his first English-language pop album. Marc Anthony sold more than 4 million copies internationally; the album's single...
...carbon-dating technology that were used to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin and to prove that the Piltdown man was a hoax; in Oxford, England. DIED. BETTY EVERETT, 61, soul singer whose 1964 recording of The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) became a Billboard Top 10 hit; in Beloit, Wisconsin. She was considered a major talent but had only a few other minor hits. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of JESSE HELMS, 79, cantankerous and ultra-conservative Republican who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1972; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Helms will step down when...
Back at the American Village a month after the incident, a matsuri is in full swing. But across the street, in front of a billboard for the movie Pearl Harbor, is a group from the local Ryukyu University. The students wave banners and shout hoarsely into bullhorns: "We oppose American bases on Okinawa! We oppose President Bush! We oppose violence to women! We will not rest till the bases...