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Then came the surprise success of the New York City female rap trio Salt-N- Pepa, whose 1986 debut album, Hot, Cool & Vicious, sold more than 1 million copies. Spurred by visions of a new way to capitalize on rap's mainstream acceptance, record labels have been hurrying to develop other promising female rappers. Now a wave of female performers is giving male rappers a run for their platinum. Says Russell Simmons, the rap impresario whose Def Jam label recently signed a sharp young rapper named Nikki D: "There are more women buying rap records who would like to relate...
...Hollywood filmmaker he admires for "revealing a sordid society through the most delicious light comedies." Women doesn't meet that standard; it's more like The Big Chill with a bitter taste. But it does have a plot right out of some beloved old screwball comedy. When the disconsolate Pepa (Maura) tosses a couple dozen downers into her gazpacho cocktail, she triggers a plot device that ricochets happily through the film...
...Pepa's posh apartment is like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Strange people just keep piling in. In the course of a long day, Pepa runs into her lover's ex-wife, his new mistress, his son and the lad's fiancee. Plus a couple of doped-up cops and a Jehovah's Witness concierge. The film is devious enough to have speared every foreign-language prize from U.S. critics and obvious enough that Hollywood is genuflecting at Almodovar's door. "Pedro is going to become a major director," says Orion Pictures' Mike Medavoy, "either in Hollywood...
...without fatal consequences in Bürgenstock's miniature mountainside chapel. In Ferrer, 37, Audrey had her first husband. In Audrey, 25. Ferrer, whose knightly charms have led to some confusion at the altar in the past, had a fourth marriage and third wife; he had four children (Pepa, 13, Mark, 10, by wife No. 1; Mela, 12, Christopher, 11, by wife No. 2), remarried wife No. 1, who divorced him last December in Juárez. Friends and relatives wished the newlyweds well as they took off for a Roman honeymoon...
...Ramon M. H. Woolman '09 El Capitan, G. J. Giles Sp. El Boticarie, E. Machado '09 Un Quidam, H. W. Packer 2Tg. Pascual, W. Horn '10. "EL COCHERO Y M. CORNETA Nicodemus, E. N. Bray '09 M. Corneta, G. Rivera '09 Tie Paco, F. M. Ryan '10 Pepa, J. M. Wright '09 Lola, J. O. Patterson '09 Andres, H. Y. Masten '09 Carlos, F. F., Moir '09 Un Moyo, C. T. Allen '09 Un Lacayo, G. Lawton...