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...actress (in last year's action hit Romeo Must Die) and hip-hop soul singer (her third CD, Aaliyah, on Blackground/ Virgin, came out last week) is talking gleefully about a love scene in her next movie. It's Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned, and Aaliyah, 22, plays the boss vampire Akasha. "Akasha is very manipulative," she says. "She and Lestat [a character played by Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire and by Stuart Townsend here] get into a tub, and I seduce him. So I had to kiss him on the chest and draw blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Street But Sweet | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

MADONNA On her new tour, the rock provocateur shows a film that depicts her as a battered woman. Some feminists have objected. In London, M cried, "God save the Queen!" but drew catcalls for her high ticket prices. For 85[pounds], a British paper quipped, "you'd expect her to lap-dance for you privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diplomats Of Rock | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Very much so. So was Wahid, of course, but Megawati is much more so. In fact, people say she doesn't want to be president; she wants to be queen. She thinks it's her birthright to rule as the daughter of the father of modern Indonesia, but she doesn't want to concern herself with the messy responsibilities that come with power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's New Leader: High Hopes, Low Expectations | 7/26/2001 | See Source »

...crowning of a bandit queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Bandit Queen Died As She Once Lived | 7/25/2001 | See Source »

...villages of northern India, her lover and Dacoit mentor Vikram Mallah had taught her, "If you are going to kill, kill twenty, not just one. For if you kill twenty, your fame will spread; if you kill only one, they will hang you as a murderess." The Bandit Queen?s story certainly bore out that maxim. But the maxim has a corollary: The more people you kill; the wider the clamor for revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Bandit Queen Died As She Once Lived | 7/25/2001 | See Source »

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