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...group got its start around 1990 in Houston, with Beyonce and LaTavia Roberson, who were soon joined by Kelendria ("Kelly") Rowland and LeToya Luckett. Mathew Knowles, Beyonce's father, took over as manager, eventually quitting his job selling MRI and CT scanners. Although based in the Lone Star State, the group turned to Motown for inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Call Of The Child | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...current and former members of Destiny's Child may soon come face to face again. Luckett told TIME that she plans to attend the Grammys. "I hope to bring my running partner LaTavia with me," she says. What will she do if she runs into her former bandmates? "I'll hug them and tell them I love them," she says. Still, a reunion tour is not in the cards. Says Beyonce: "I think the best Destiny's Child is the Destiny's Child now." As another Supremes song once said, you can't hurry love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Call Of The Child | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...William ("the Refrigerator") Perry. Born eight weeks prematurely, she weighed in at a delicate 3 lbs. 10 1/2 oz., a tiny fraction of her famous father's 300-plus lbs. She will be the third lady in the Perry household, joining Mom and her three-year-old big sister Latavia. "Now I'm outnumbered three to one," quipped the Chicago Bears defensive tackle, who celebrated by pass ing around chocolate cigars. Though Mrs. Perry has already gone home, the diapered "fridgette" will have to stay in the hospital about three more weeks. Imagine a Perry who is supposed to gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Thus comes "Castles in the Air". It starts out in a Westchester country estate (favorite hunting ground for second acts) and then jumps squarely in the middle of Latavia, with a standing army, a villainous chancellor with mustachies, and all the sword-flashing and heel-clicking in the world. And there...

Author: By E. R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

...third act is just stuck on to fool you. They do have a happy ending after all, because the prince says, in substance, "To hell with dear old Latavia. Send for a minister." This is also worthy of some kind of a Pulitzer prize...

Author: By E. R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

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