Word: diva
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...showdown with federal prosecutors in New York City, her legal team spent last week sifting through hundreds of 35-page juror questionnaires that probed such matters as whether people had ever purchased a Martha Stewart product or heard of the biotech firm ImClone. The fate of the domestic diva, who faces charges stemming from her sale of 3,928 ImClone shares shortly before the stock price plummeted in 2001, hinges on whether the jury sees her as a cover-up artist or as a victim of overzealous prosecutors. The good news for Stewart, who faces up to 30 years...
...DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, flamboyant actress and Canto-pop diva, known as the Asian Madonna; of lung dysfunction caused by cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. (See Appreciation, page...
Petite, with pale skin and masses of blond hair, Zakrzewski could fairly be described as a diva and prima donna, rarely seeming to let down her stage image. “She adores the limelight and functions very, very well in lights of flamboyances,” says Zakrzewski’s mentor, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68. “That’s something she take to naturally and always has.” Zakrzewski, a joint music and government concentrator, makes little effort to hide her appreciation for some...
There's nothing Broadway loves better than a juicy backstage drama. And Taboo - the musical about '80s rock star Boy George, with music by the grownup Boy, George O?Dowd, and produced by talk-show diva Rosie O'Donnell - offered plenty of fodder. There were cancelled performances, reports of backstage fights, a star who walked out of a rehearsal, a director nearly fired. All that and a producer shuttling between the theater and a Manhattan courthouse, where she was involved in a lawsuit with the former publisher of her defunct magazine, Rosie...
...replacing sex with static, skank with slam. The music is so disfigured it’s unrecognizable as house, or anything traditional at that. “Cish Cash” is essentially post-millennial punk and opener “Good Luck” slaps a bona fide diva over drum and bass, but even she’s barely able to restrain the music’s machismo...