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BRIEFS
On th home front
r.; she'11 file for
Prince' affair
with Madonna
Prirre'saffilirwith poppdreess
Madonna, aOO her outi� with
Michael Jaclcson are all unveiled in
Chri topher Anderson' book
"Madonna Unauthorized'. Tbe
rovct'salreedy topped New York'
be t seller's list. It d tail
fv1adorma' sexual escapades. ber
need f<X' oontrol am power arxi her
lust for attention.
According to til: k, :Madon­
na always wanted to wround rer-
If with powetful peopl . In 1�
she fourx1 hetself intrigued by a
man woo a year earlier, rocked til:
pop wortd with "Purple Rain".
Prirce first potted Madorma back­
stage at the American Music
: Awards in LA. Ratter tjam
omtroduce hirrself, he had his
manager get ber number,
Tbe rext day be called am they
1 up a dae=-orc that led to a
rious romance. Madonna was
till dating ber soon-to-bc-hubby
Sean Penrat til: time ard be wasn 'r
a bit �y with this Prircc and
:Madonm thing, but the hook says
Mad nna was very intrigued. Not
only w he attracted to his power
arxl Iarre, but: sbe was impressed
with h' . "spiritualist" ide.
Prince was very drawn to
Madonna's keen intelligence. A
traight-A moor snoeru, he has a
140geniuslevelIQ. He toldfiieros,
"sre's exactly what I've been look­
ing for-beauty • and brairs'', But
whatte wasn'tlooking forwas long
ierm rommitments.
· Chamberlain's
wild Sex life?
ketballiegeoo Wilt Oam­
bertain has published his own
autobiogmphy titled '� ViQil From
A�' in which be claims to have
had sexual ereoun IS with 2O,(lX)
diftIereoc women. Tbe numbers
were tailed from date books be'
kept siree 1%9.
He says the numbers break
down to 500. ereoumers a year for
til: past 40 yeats, or 12 worren a
day, everyday since he was 15.
Hollywood News
Soperstar rocker David Bowie
is hush-hush on plans for his up
coming wedding to top model,
'Iman.
It will be til: secom marriage
for Iman, wOO was previously mar­
ried to fonner booper Leonard
Haywood.Ant � years after his
drug telaled death in 1 CJ70 at the �
of Zl, JI11li HeOOrix was finally
awarded a star on the I-bllywood
Walk of Fame.
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lt t ok Stephanie ab ut a month
t r ord and omplctc Chri tma:
and sh 'ay," It wa: definit ly a
labor of I vc ... a wond rful x­
p rienc , I wanted to rna c an
uplittin Chri trna album that real­
ly reflect the feeling f joy that I
have ab ut thi sp cial ea on. Al­
though I u ed the arne ba ic vocal
approach I do with all my record, 1
ot a chan to expres my elf in
way: I hadn't in whil . I felt really
Ir e with my inging. Plus, thi wa
the first project in a very long while
where I felt like I had no pressure:
all I had to do wa be creative and
totally deal with myarti try. I'd do
three or four ong a day and usual­
ly do vocal. , take home the tape that
night, do my homework and come
ba k the next day and nail it."
For thi p cial project,
Stephanie worked with her musical
director Donald Lawrence and. for
the fin time, produ ers Steve Barri
& Tony Pelu 0, B Be Winans and
arada Mi hacl Walden. "Donald
ha heen workin on the road with
me for the last five year or '0, 0
he know me v ry w 11 and it
seemed like a very natural thing for·
us to do. He did vocal arrangements
"Lov 1 To List n."
N r d and I got togeth r to ju. t
com up With orne ide for th
album and w nd d up writing h
ong "Merry Chri tmas" tog th r,
which h produ ed. I have to .ay
that working with the producers in-
volved with thi album wa
wonderful," ay Steph nie, who
wa th Exe utive Produ r for th
entire album and coproducer on all
but two of the track.
While he.' reluctant to Ingle
out pecific highlights "because thi .
really i like my pet project, orne­
thing I'm v ry proud of from tart
to fini h," the gifted voca1i t men­
tion four .ong that are of par­
ticular ignificance: The album
tarts off with "This Christmas" and
it's a ong I gr w up listening to by
Donny Hathaway, who I've always
loved. I've always wanted to record
it and I'd ing it in my 'live' how
whenever I wa performing t
Chri tma time. If I ever "cover' a
song, I never do it th same way as
the original performer and I think
we definitely did omething dif-
See CHRISTMAS, 8-2
o TALK-SHOW "0 T OPRAH WINFREY (RlGHT).
The Be t Christma
Talk 'how h t Oprah Winfrey,
contemp rary go pel inger CeCc
Winan , U.S. Secretary Health
and Human Service Dr. Loui W.
Sullivan, actor Jaleel white TV'.
"Famil Mall rs" and others ivc
their emotional de ripti n t
"The Be t Chri tma I Ev r Had,"
in the De emb r E ony.
Oprah explains why Chri trnas
1 , the fi t in her newly built
farmhouse, wa her favorite, due to
family, friend and fe tive h liday
decorati ns, while CeCe relate th
rom ntic . tory 0 getting cnga ed
ri ht b fore Chri tma in 1 3,
making the holiday pecial a well
a "every .hri tma ince then."
Dr. Sullivan de cribe his best
Chri tma a the h liday of 19 8,
during which time he wa
n ruinated f r the cabin t po t, and
mend offered to let hi family usc.
their lake ide cabin to enjoy the
h lid Y and avoid reporters. He
tate, "Getting away from the
hustle and bustle of media attention
wa the greate t gift anyone could
have given us."
J leel, who i known for role on
the it m "Family Matters," tell
why hi e t Chri tma .wa the one
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I Ever Had
that his parents convincingly trick­
ed him into believing that he did not
. have any pre ents: dancer/acne
Judith Jami on explains why her
be t holiday was whcn he realized
that her parent were the real Santa;
and Olympic track tar Carl Lewi
describe hi be t Christmas as that
in 1 86, the la t that he pent with
hi father who died the next year.
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