Word: braxtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Braxton Brothers...
PLAYING THE QUEEN Aretha Franklin was asked last week what actress could play her in a film version of her life story. "Maybe Natalie Cole?" she mused. "Toni Braxton has a resemblance to me at a younger age. I love Vivica Fox...and I really love Brandy." On a scale of 1 to 10, here is how we rate that race...
...Cole Braxton Fox Brandy...
...joyfully, shrugging and grinning as he backpedals away from each accomplishment. He makes us believe, against our own experience, that hard work can reward--that even 0.8 sec. means there is hope. And in doing so, he has defined masculinity despite publicly admitting that his favorite performers are Toni Braxton and Anita Baker; this guy could say his favorite movie was Beaches, and he'd still be the alpha male. He has unwittingly followed the plot of a hero, suffering like Ulysses: His father, to whom he was extremely close, was murdered in a carjacking in 1993. He left...
...Franklin's influence has only grown in the '90s. The dominant divas of this decade--Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton--are all, musically speaking, Sunday-school students of Aretha's. The queen still rules: early this year Franklin co-starred in a Divas Live benefit concert on the cable channel VH-1 with some of the most popular young female singers of the '90s, including Carey and Celine Dion. The younger stars were blown offstage by the force of Franklin's talent...