Word: diva
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...many Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float rides through Herald Square with unfashionable earmuffs, chapped lips, fake smile, beauty-pageant wave and a runny nose from the cold is enough to permanently ruin a pop diva’s persona—as I have known no diva to benefit from lip-synching in sub zero Manhattan temperatures while accompanied by nerdy high school band and dance team. Nevertheless, stars seem undeterred by the volatility of the holiday consumer base as they continue to market themselves better than most toys on shelves (unless of courses they are promoting...
...Christmas dinner “Detroit Style” with Rock’s mother and celebrity special guests. And that’s only the tip of the icicle. For office party background carols one can choose American Idol finalists singing the holiday classics, or R&B diva Ashanti belting out a few originals on her soon-to-be-released holiday album. Out of Nashville Kenny Chesney has released his album “All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan” and thus joins the ranks of country artists from Dolly Parton...
...money high enough to make you admit that Liza Minnelli can beat you up. But for Minnelli's ex, producer David Gest, it took $10 million. That's what Gest says he wants in a complaint filed last week alleging that the 5-ft. 4-in. diva flew into violent, vodka-fortified rages during their 16-month marriage. Minnelli denied the charges in a statement, saying she had "hoped very much that the end of my marriage would be handled with mutual respect and dignity." No such luck. In the complaint, which leaves one with an unexpected feeling--it could...
...Total diva...
...former star of the No. 1 sitcom Roseanne once claimed to have more than 20 personalities. And on her new reality show--about her attempt to get yet another show, a cable cooking series, on the air--we meet several. There's the imperious diva, legendary for throwing tantrums and firing employees. There's the woman on a "spiritual journey," who asks a cabalistic rabbi to analyze the faces of applicants for a producing job. There's the coddled Hollywood loony (see previous sentence). There's the insecure self-doubter, the self-described "genius" and the cake-baking hausfrau...