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...years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other than Kelly's old roommate, ALYCIA SIMMONS, and his own adoptive...
...LAUREN CHAPIN, 51 ; ORLANDO, FLORIDA, Former child actress...
From ages 5 to 14, Chapin portrayed Kathy ("Kitten") Anderson in the TV series Father Knows Best. But in the years that followed she lived anything but the serene life depicted on that show, successfully fighting a long battle with drug addiction. Then one day in 1979, when her five-year-old son Matthew asked her to go to church with him, she became a born-again Christian, and later an evangelist. But Chapin never abandoned show biz, acting in three Father Knows Best reunion specials, managing younger talents and judging beauty pageants. She is currently developing a TV series...
They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
...festivals and clubs have sprung up on both coasts. The Cajun-Zydeco sound has influenced mainstream artists as well. Paul Simon's homage to Zydeco and its late "king,'' Clifton Chenier, That Was Your Mother, was one of the highlights of his multimillion-selling Graceland album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general and Beausoleil in particular. "What drew me to Cajun?" ponders Carpenter. "In no particular order: percussion, fiddle, spices, waltzes, Acadian accordion, the tempo, lyrics of love and spirit...