Word: divas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adios, Aretha. Desist, other divas. Jackie Washington has returned. Never heard of her? Well, that's because she exists only in this rascally Spinal Tap-ish faux documentary. On the eve of Jackie's comeback concert, an oily host (Tim Curry) takes us through her disastrous career: her one hit single, her flop blaxploitation movie (Whipped Creme). Whoopi, Liza and other no-last-name-needed stars contribute cameos, but it's the diva herself who really delivers. As Jackie, Jenifer Lewis purrs, snaps and belts--the complete funny lady in a roguishly funny film...
...song in America, Livin' la Vida Loca. His self-titled new CD is setting sales records at stores across the U.S. And Martin is at the center of something bigger than himself. A host of other Hispanic performers, including vocalist Marc Anthony and actress turned pop diva Jennifer Lopez, are poised to release highly anticipated Latin-tinged CDs soon. Martin, in an interview with TIME, was so euphoric over his success he bordered on being Roberto Benigni-esque. "What are you kidding me?" says Martin. "I'm flying, I'm flying...
...produced for Lopez's upcoming album On the 6. "It sounds great," he says, flashing his trademark broad smile. "This is going to be really big. I'm telling you." Nowadays, when Estefan makes that kind of prediction, industry moguls listen. A former drummer and the husband of pop diva Gloria Estefan, he has emerged as the godfather of Latin pop. Estefan produced four songs on Ricky Martin's new album. He has also mentored and produced Jon Secada and Colombian superstar Shakira, whose first English-language album is scheduled to be released early next year. Some have dubbed Estefan...
...most likely to be killed by someone they know, but why? Femme-hop has an even bigger fight than the fight against what black men think of us, and how they treat us, because someone else is writing the pedagogy that informs this frame of mind. Intellectual rap-diva Tricia Rose has this to say: "The second example I want to draw on to illuminate the tension between aesthetics and sociohistorical contexts of rap's sexism and misogyny. Sherley Anne Williams's talk about rap grossly misunderstood the context within which rap develops and, unintentionally perhaps, located sexism...
...Tintin's fundamental ambiguity extends all the way to his sexual orientation. He never appears to have any close female friends (with the revealing exception of Madame Castafiore, a campy opera diva whose path he crosses several times). And to complicate matters further, he's constantly having quasi homoerotic relationships with young boys whom he befriends in foreign countries. Tintin's physical appearance is itself gender-ambiguous. What are we to make of his distinctive cow lick, which is neither particularly masculine or feminine...