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In "Life"
LOS ANGELES — "When they first see me, they just think I'm four eyes and blonde hair," said Anastacia, introducing herself on MTV's reality show The Cut in 1998."When I sing, it's very different."She wasn't kidding.Her TV debut opened with a long wide shot. Audiences heard her before they saw her. That voice is all purr and growl, like a lion clawing its way through velvet.As the camera zoomed in, Anastacia strutted down the staircase, her hair in pigtails under a candy striped bucket hat, her midriff exposed by a crop top, in accordance with 1990s pop regulations.By the time she finished her song, Not That Kind, the phone lines were red hot. Even Michael Jackson placed a call, trying to sign her to his record label."It was like a...
September 09, 2025
Anastacia: Arnold Schwarzenegger made me sing Whatta Man 12 times
September 09, 2025
Scientists find a surprising reason why people are eating more sugar
DELHI — "Someone once asked me what my mother's greatest legacy to me was," Arundhati Roy said at a private gathering in the Indian capital, Delhi, recently. "I said an overactive middle finger."That crack — sharp, irreverent, wickedly funny — is the perfect way into the Booker Prize-winning author and activist's new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. It is the story of Mary Roy, her formidable, mercurial mother: feminist icon, educator, crusader, eccentric, bully, inspiration. A woman who, as her daughter writes, was "my shelter and my storm".Arundhati Roy was an architect, actor, screenwriter and production designer before turning novelist. Her debut The God of Small Things — a childhood-inspired family saga — won the 1997 Booker. It was...
September 05, 2025
'My mother was my shelter and storm': Arundhati Roy on her fierce new memoir
September 05, 2025
Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds
September 04, 2025
Indian doctors remove parasitic foetuses from baby's stomach
September 04, 2025
Restored Big Ben tower up for architecture award
September 04, 2025
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up
September 03, 2025
Compassion v fear: Delhi divided over stray dogs
September 03, 2025
US filmmaker in legal battle over 'Downton Shabby'
September 03, 2025
Chloe Malle to become top editor at American Vogue
