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Holidays could be a dreary time aboard Mir, especially for those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
...Eve Ensler, the creator of the theater production, the Vagina Monologues, spoke last night in the ARCO forum about art's ability to effect change in the political arena...
...Although Eve, 22, worked for a brief time as a stripper ("That was probably my biggest struggle"), she nursed dreams of becoming a singer. She soon discovered that rapping got more attention. Eve made it onto the roster of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment label, only to be let go, and then found a home at Ruff Ryders. She reunites with Dre on Scorpion (he produced two tracks). Says she: "I was like, 'He better do something on my album--he dropped me from his label...
While her debut was a spare, streety affair, Eve's new CD is glossier and more ambitious. It's loaded with guest stars, including No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, reggae royalty Damian and Stephen Marley, and Eve's boyfriend, producer Stevie J. Her rapping is more controlled and confident, though she sometimes sacrifices coherence for rhythm, spouting half-thoughts and sentence fragments just to keep her flow going...
...months ago, drained by career pressures, she experienced a depression. Says Eve: "My self-confidence was really low." But she recovered, she says, by strengthening her relationship with God. Now she hopes her album will be a source of strength to others: "I just want women to know how strong they are." Having taken her bite of the apple, Eve now wants to share...