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...support a child-development center. With hits like Waterfalls and Creep, TLC, which debuted in 1992, evolved from a gimmicky singing trio--Lopes attached condoms to her eyeglasses during concerts--to one that was acclaimed for its original sound. The group's CDs, 1994's CrazySexyCool and 1999's FanMail, which produced the No. 1 hit No Scrubs, sold 25 million copies, more than any other female pop group in history. Despite Lopes' and the group's much publicized difficulties--TLC filed for bankruptcy in 1995 and Lopes was put on probation in 1994 for burning down her boyfriend...
Miss Robinson is a stenographer in the fanmail room of a large movie studio. In her boredom, she starts corresponding with a Minnesota farmer who has written a fan letter to one of the studio's stars, and whose main problem is that he has a harelip and can rarely make himself understood. Writing in the name of the star, she carries on the correspondence for months: "Dear Sir: As I usually do not answer letters sent to me by fans, since I get (crossed out) receive thousands, I would appreciate your keeping this note confidential . . ." Finally they meet...
...fanmail response to the first program was not great, but included notes of appreciation from such listeners as Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds and Little Steelman Charles R. Hook, ex-president of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...widely and cordially these broadcasts are received in Germany was evident last week in a fanmail file prepared by NBC's International Division for the Federal Communications Commission. Of about 2,000 letters and postcards received by NBC each month from 82 foreign points, 300 to 400 are in German, and 60% of these from inside Germany. A few typical excerpts, translated...
...forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R. (for Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring...
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