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They called her the Asian Madonna because, in the ultra-staid world of Hong Kong pop music, her boldness was not just a sensation but an affront. If Madonna was the Material Girl, Anita Mui Yim-fong was the Bad Girl. That was the title of her 1985 hit song (which was briefly banned from radio for its raunchy lyrics) and best-selling album. In concert, Mui was a strutting, scowling presence, exuding sexuality like a visual and aural musk. She didn't simply command the stage; she commandeered it. She set attendance records with concert series...
...Still, the Madonna analogy limps. For one thing, Mui really could sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...Madonna didn't die at 40. Mui did, last week, of cervical cancer, in an exit as poignant as any of her songs or films...
...Jewish," says Daniella Zax, 32, who along with her two sisters designs the Rabbi's Daughters line. Its slinky tanks and T's with Yiddish phrases like YENTA and OY VEY are now in more than 100 stores and have been spotted on such non-Jewish celebs as Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Kelly Osbourne. Indeed, one of its best-selling shirts proclaims the wearer to be a SHIKSA--a non-Jewish girl...
...University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, this mother of two small boys hopes to attract younger customers with an edgier ad campaign while remaining true to the company's roots. Her latest projects: overseeing the launch of the fragrance Beyond Paradise (the ad features a tune by Madonna) and bringing models Carolyn Murphy and Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede into the Estee fold. "Aerin is the perfect bridge between tradition and modernity," says Estee Lauder's president, Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne. --By Dody Tsiantar/New York