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This is the season of superdivas: Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand and Madonna. Each is starring in a major holiday film (Houston in The Preacher's Wife, Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces and Madonna in Evita), and each is featured on the sound track of her film. Houston's Preacher (in stores Nov. 12) represents a change of pace for the mainstream megastar. Half the CD is pop, and half is gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music...
MOVIES . . . THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES: Two Columbia professors, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance...
Reflected Glory is packed with unflattering anecdotes, reminders that public figures with flavorful private lives should sometimes compromise with their chroniclers. An accessible Harriman might have charmed Bedell Smith into changing her title. Who wants to be remembered as merely a gilded mirror, decorative but empty until an influential man shows...
...physician, Little sees physical health as a mirror of economic health, and he wants to go to Congress "to change the economic, social and environmental conditions that cause people to become ill." To him, that means fully funding Head Start and college loans and implementing social safety-net programs like universal health care and job training...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My votes mirror the Seventh District, not Newt Gingrich. If people study the issues, they would be satisfied with my record...