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...brief monologue, then takes a seat to joke her way through the morning papers and play host to an impressive line-up of celebrities and musical acts. During her first week she introduced nearly every one of her guests--who included Penny Marshall, Fran Drescher, George Clooney, Toni Braxton and Dennis Franz--as "my buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: A LEAGUE OF HER OWN | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...Waiting to Exhale sound track is a virtual Who's Who of divadom, as compiled by Houston and the album's producer-composer, Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds. Along with Houston, the album features numbers by such highly regarded R.-and-B. performers as Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Yet Houston more than holds her own, particularly on Why Does It Hurt So Bad, with its masterly balance of pop zip and soulful melancholy. She was an enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITNEY HOUSTON: NO MISS PRISSY | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...forums are particularly good at bringing in people who have graduated," said George R. Braxton II, Georgetown University Law Center's associate dean of admissions...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Students Flock to Law Forum | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...also served as a Dunster House mentor lastfall to incoming sophomores, Braxton J.V. Robbason'97 said...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Lofty Aspirations, Bitter Fate: Two Lives Cross | 5/30/1995 | See Source »

...album was shaped by top-flight producers, including Babyface (who's worked with Toni Braxton and Madonna) and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the masterminds of Janet Jackson's rise to megastardom). Every song on II is about love and is performed at mid-tempo; the whole enterprise could easily have become just another bland-as-the-Weather-Channel collection of precision- crafted pop songs. It didn't. Each of the Boyz has a robust, nimble voice -- "There's not a weak link in the bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP: Boyz II Men: No Grunge, No Gangstas | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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