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...album is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt. "I knew I couldn't fit into a Whitney Houston mode," says the laid-back Larrieux. Instead, her voice evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead. The songs here are similarly subdued and flow casually along, like the wistful Hey U and the jaunty Ride. Occasionally, however, they take on harsh subjects such as crack addiction, as on the softly funky 10 Minute High. "Everybody tells her to stop...
...films and filmmakers mentioned above are only a fraction of those featured in the retrospective Others include: Len Iye, James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, James Whitney and Dwinnel Grant. Attending a lecture along with a screening is a good idea, since understanding the technique, milieu and decade in which these artists worked helps make sense of their non objective subjects...
...Mother and Child (with Amy Grant and Martina McBride). "I wanted this to be an album of women with vocal distinction," says Houston, "that you could say their first name but you don't have to say their last." For Babyface, the key first name was Houston's. "When Whitney does a project," he says, "it sets a tone for the record in general, and it becomes her record...
EVEN BEFORE HER ROLE OPPOsite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard made her a movie star, there was something cinematic about Whitney Houston. Her life has been big time and big screen. The daughter of gospel and R.-and-B. singer Cissy Houston, she began at the top with her 1985 debut album, Whitney Houston, and has sold 80 million records worldwide since. Her sweet lyrics (Didn't We Almost Have It All) recall the classic romances of Hollywood in the 1940s; her adventurous vocals (in songs like her majestic megahit I Will Always Love You) have the grandiosity...
Potent women in other fields are also welcome in the new Hollywood. Whitney Houston, who co-stars in this Christmas' Waiting to Exhale, has several projects in development, including a biopic of actress Dorothy Dandridge. And Oprah Winfrey just signed a five-year deal with Disney. "You won't see me shooting or stalking or being shot," she says. "I want to do films that enhance people's lives...