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ALANIS MORISSETTE Her Jagged Little Pill has tied Whitney Houston's 1985 album as the top seller by a woman...
...look for Harvard coach Sue Caples to stick either junior Eileen Horwath, senior Whitney Smith or junior Beck Stringer up in the midfield...
...like Carole King meets a songwriter very much like Brian Wilson; and That Thing You Do! with writer-director Tom Hanks playing a record-label exec who manages a one-hit pop group. Both films boast new songs composed in period style. And The Preacher's Wife will offer Whitney Houston putting over surefire spirituals with a gospel choir. That's the kind of musical both Variety and Billboard can understand...
...seems--is also going multimedia. A much lauded site opened on the Internet and on America Online last year; a record label was launched last April featuring such blues artists as Lightnin' Hopkins and such gospel acts as Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys of Alabama and Cissy Houston (Whitney's mom). This summer two HOB-produced concert tours will visit 30 cities each: one, a neosoul lineup headlined by the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees, starts July 22; and another featuring blues acts will hit the road July...
...wanted to deliver and for presenting the truth of their lives. Groups like Public Enemy carried the flag of black protest, and later, gangsta rappers like Snoop Doggy Dogg chronicled the crime-ridden neighborhoods in which they lived in scathing, scatological terms. Soul music was left to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men and the like. Talented performers, yes. Standard-bearers for musical boundary pushing...