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...ONLY MARIAH CAREY'S MUSIC HAD the drama of her life. Her songs are often sugary and artificial--Nutrasweet soul. But her life has passion and conflict. Carey's mother is white, her father is black, and she is constantly prodded by skin-color busybodies to define her racial identity. Raised on Long Island, Carey grew up so financially strapped that she and her divorced mother sometimes had to move in with friends. Last year, in a revelation pursued aggressively by the tabloids, it came out that Carey's sister is HIV-positive and, according to some reports, that Carey...
...through all this, Carey has prospered. Now she's so rich she's not sure how many rooms there are in her mansion in New York's suburban Westchester County. In 1993 she married her boss, Tommy Mottola, president of Sony Music Entertainment (which owns her label, Columbia). In the past six years, she's sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. Still, given the vagaries of her life, it's always been odd and a little sad that Carey's music has remained so tidy and predictable. Where is her life in her work...
...point during "Showgirls," one of the Stardust Club's head honchos tells his entertainment director Zack Carey (Kyle MacLachlan) "This is bullshit. This is about your dick." He might as well be describing director Paul Verhoeven's latest no-brainer...
...Reported by Dean Fischer/Washington, Tim Larimer/Hanoi and Carey Zessiger/Ho Chi Minh City
Some commentators predict that the anticamera sentiment will subside once the Simpson jury reaches a verdict. "After that happens, I suspect courts will become more permissive again," says professor James Carey of the Columbia School of Journalism. But will America's pool of potential witnesses prove so resilient? "Would I do it again if I had known?" asks Fenjves. "I don't know...