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MOST TERRIFYING Cyclone, Astroland, Brooklyn, N.Y. It holds no records for longest or fastest, but its creaks, groans and rickety rails keep riders hanging on in fear for their lives
...usual, Aaliyah arrived dressed all in black. She liked to cloak herself in shadow and secrecy, like a latter-day Greta Garbo. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit (real name: Aaliyah Haughton). When she released her first album, "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number" back in 1994, she was given to wearing sunglasses in most of her photo shoots and public appearances. Later, she took to sweeping her long black hair in front of one eye, a la Veronica Lake. You could never get a good look at her face, never get a good read...
Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Detroit, Aaliyah didn't begin her career as the butt-kicking type. She performed on Star Search when she was 11 and failed to win. Closely supported by family (her mom is her manager), she released her first album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, when she was just 15 but was rocked by scandal when reports surfaced that she had secretly married R. Kelly, the producer of her debut, who was 10 years older. Kelly and Aaliyah have since parted ways. When asked if she is still...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. By ABNER LOUIMA, 33, victim in a notorious case of police brutality in which he was sodomized with a broken broomstick in a Brooklyn-precinct bathroom in 1997; and the N.Y.P.D.; for $8.75 million. Louima's take will be tax-free, but his lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, will share $3 million...
...also never bored. At slow moments, we argue politics with Richie, the conservative cook from Brooklyn whose quotable quote about Clinton was “how could you like for president a man who doesn’t have the common sense to know how to smoke pot?” (Richie really, really wants to see a Harvard party and talk politics with us. I wonder if he knows what he?...