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...play Evita. "What I said was that by the time anybody gets around to making the movie, she'll be too old," he now explains. Vocally, he admits, Madonna did not come to the role with the powerhouse pipes of such stage Evitas as Elaine Paige and Patti LuPone. But she worked with a vocal coach in New York City, and Lloyd Webber helped by lowering the score a few keys. "She doesn't claim to have the biggest voice," he says, "but theater isn't the same as cinema. If you had done the score exactly...
...PATTI SMITH Rock singer and poet...
BORN: Nov. 14, 1956, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. EDUCATION: U of Houston, Clear Lake, B.S., 1990 FAMILY: Wife, Patti RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Accountant POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1990; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1992; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 57135, Webster...
...limos and evening gowns. They're calling in to drive-time radio stations, like Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-FM, which solicited listeners' divorce horror stories and revenge fantasies--and found its switchboards lighted up like Times Square. And they're throwing parties, like the one last week for Patti Kenner's 52nd birthday, in which 60 of her female friends gathered for cocktails, then adjourned to a Manhattan theater to hoot and laugh their way through all 105 minutes of The First Wives Club. Even though Kenner and most of her guests are still happily married to their first...
Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...