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DIED. Ruth Brown, 78, Big Band singer turned R&B diva, known for her seductive delivery and ability to sway between tenderness and swagger; in Las Vegas. In the 1950s the fledgling Atlantic Records--for whom she recorded hits like Teardrops from My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean--was called "the house that Ruth built." After a 25-year lull, she won new fans in the '80s, performing in the Broadway stage revue Black and Blue and winning a Grammy for the 1989 album Blues on Broadway...
DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career--she retired in 1942 at age 29--won acclaim for playing innocents, memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tagline: "All Paris desired her, but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, Calif...
Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's roundup of supermodel shenanigans, TV-actor announcements and pop-diva cancellations...
...skit over 30 seconds long merely belabors the point. As Streisand’s lackluster satire went forward, order collapsed faster than Air America’s ratings. One audience member began to heckle Streisand and her Bush lookalike, setting off a major showdown with the Brooklyn-born diva. Not to be upstaged by someone offstage, Streisand decided to meet chutzpah with chutzpah...
...Shut the (expletive) up,” the diva wailed. She was not going to let anyone criticize her partisan comedy bit. Moreover, she didn’t care whether she was entertaining her audience...