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...MAGAZINE How to get your teenage daughter off the phone: buy her a copy of Teen Digital Diva II (Activision/Girl Games; $25.99). This PC-only software lets her create, edit and print her own teen publication (or, if she prefers privacy, her own "cosmic journal" with password protection). It features everything you'd expect from the genre: do-it-yourself astrology, numerology, relationship quizzes, a "dream oracle" that always finds something positive to say about your nightmares, and a virtual makeover room that lets you change your image to your heart's content. You need never buy Cosmo again...
Liza Minnelli doesn't sweep, diva-style, into the restaurant for an interview. She sort of edges in, warily, close to a publicist, wrapped in folds of black that effectively hide a figure that once ballooned so much that paparazzi competed for photos as though they were getting paid by the pound. Yet she's looking better these days, down 40 lbs. thanks to a high-protein diet (this evening's menu: carpaccio, swordfish steak and hot milk for dessert). Her weight, of course, is hardly the only thing that has made her a star of the gossip pages. There...
DIED. MADELINE KAHN, 57, devilishly ditsy singer-comedian; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. A diva of light farce, Kahn was Oscar-nominated for best supporting floozy in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). She won a 1993 Tony for Best Actress in The Sisters Rosensweig...
...VEGAS, NEVADA Barbra Streisand In Concert The first diva will hold court at the MGM Grand. Also entertaining in Vegas: Elton John, Bette Midler and Celine Dion --500 to $2,500/ticket...
...Records, is a big investor in Manga Entertainment, the premier U.S. arm for anime. Its spectral cyborg parable, Ghost in the Shell, was the only anime to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Top Video Sales chart. Perfect Blue (a kind of All About Evil, in which a pop diva is both the star and her twisted alter ego) has played in 30 U.S. theaters. And there are hints that two Hollywood titans, Francis Coppola and James Cameron, may make separate deals for co-productions with anime companies...