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Aretha asl
for Windy
By JOEY SASSO
Syndicated Columnist
Singer Aretha Franklin's
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., home
is on the market for $800,000,
but it may be hard to unload.
In that posh Detroit suburb, '
bars on all the windows are a
no-no, don'tcha know^ Her
wealthy neighbors use nothing
that "declasse" - only guard
dogs and intricate security
systems. Really, Aretha!...
Back on Top - Singer Tina
Turner, back on the rock 'n'
roll charts at age 44 with her
hit "What's Love Got To Dot
with Itji-says that she's still
sinking because "I've had my
kids and I'm still in great
shape." The first three concerts
of her North American
tour, which began yesterday in
Los Angeles, were sold out.
The tawny-haired singer
divorced her husband and
mentor, Ike, eight years ago,
ui uiging an cna 10 one 01 me
most electrifying musical acts
in show business. In part, she
said, the split came because
she was unhappy doing
"groovy" songs with a rhythm
and blues tempo. "Everyone
wanted me to do R&B... I can
still rock, age has nothing to
do with it. Forty-four is just a
number... I've had my kids
and I'm still in great shape. So
why not do what I want to
do?" ...
Looks like Vic Damone and
Diahann Carroll are getting
serious. A steady item for
some time, the pair showed up
arm in arm at a party in Frank
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Broadway com
"Ain't Misbehavin," the sas!
featuring the music of "Fat?
presented by a New York toi
the Stevens Center on Sun
Ask Yolonda
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By YOLONDA QAYLES
Syndicated Columnist
DEAR YOLONDA: My husband
and I have been married
for three years and are the
parents of two children.
I have a pretty unusual problem
- I've been told by two
different people^hat^my husband
is gay, but I don't know
whether to believe them or
day, October 25, 1984
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Sinatra's Palm Springs hacienda...^
Count on Eartha Kitt to
keep coming back with a sur- - [
prise. Not only has she just
completed her first album in
15 years, but Eartha wowed
the crowds in Germany, where
she's hailed because of her
"earthy" style. The album, "I
Love Men," includes her hit
single, "Where is my Man,"
which had earned gold records
in Sweden, France and Ger- i
many. |
Just back from Germany,
she'll spfcnd August here
before heading back to
Deutschland for six weeks of
concerts. Who wants to spend
time in New York? "1 do!"
says Eartha, and for good
reason. It'll give her a chance
to catch up with the career of I
, her daughter, Kit! McDonald,
who has begun modeling and
is studying acting. "No singing,
not me. My mom is the
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amgvi, uut i win iry 10 ioiiow
in her footsteps as an actess. \
I'll be proud to follow in her
footsteps anywhere. She is the
greatest." Eartha, however,
isn't playing stage mother. I
"She'll have to find her own
way, and not just as Eartha $
Kitt's daughter," says Eartha.
"I agree with her a thousand
percent," adds Kitt,~ whose
dad, BUI McDonald, is in real
estate in Los Angeles.
"I'm 22 and I live by myself y
in Manhattan, but we spend as i
much time as we can together
when possible at mom's home . |j
in New Milford, Conn," the I
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not. There's a man that my
husband seems to be unusually
close to, and it has crossed my
mind that perhaps the two of
them have something going
on. At one time the man used
to eat breakfast, lunch and
dinner at our house, but I
finally put a stop to it.
One of the two people who
warned me about my husband
said that she was told by a
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ev/e Wonder's nev
nder's latest single, 441 Just Called to
You," from the Motown album and \\\\\V
44The Woman in Red,44 has become
one best selling single in America for
i and blues and adult contemporary I HJ
is outstanding chart activity comes
eks after the single was released and is
he Oct. 13 editions of Cash Box and
agazines, prestigious music industry I
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n to beltog the number one single in
Just Called to Say I Love You" has
nber one single in Europe for the past
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tria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
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stong chart positions in both publicaIbum
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number 11 and starred for upward I
n the Pop Album Charts, and also ^Hi^l
nber seven position for R&B albums.
for "The Woman in Red" is written
d by Wonder. Dionne Warwick per- "Celel
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better place, they do something about Organ
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n being fair to him. I DEAR TANYA: I assum
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g ways, but other- one who can give you th
tt a normal married word on his sexuality.
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le people telling me , about hus
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1. Well, that's something
must stop. Next time sor
Tanya comes up to you with r
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iThe 25-year old purple
I: fanatic Prince takes center ,
stage in this month*
Ebony. The cover Interview
lg examines who & Prince I Is
and Includes special interviews
with his father John I
|l Nelson; hts- girlfriend
Apollonia Kotero, and his
v, "foster mother" Berntdette
I Anderson., The article also
reveals the Prince - who is |
outrageous on stage - that
J| nobody knows, the one
k; who ijie describes * as *
"quiet, gentlemanly and
P* very religious."
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Wonder: At the top again. ,
?ration" and "Joanna" ? are Sponsors and
il ambassadors of the Big Brothers and Big
Organization. To thank Kool and the Gang
eir support, the Big Brothers and Sisters
ization of Tucson, Ariz., recently presented
ind his cohorts with an award.
id is gay?'
le that tions of this sort, say: "It
r hus- hurts me to hear this kind of
e only gossip about my husband. I'm
le last sure you know that. So why
would you go out of your way
, , to hurt me?" Let's see what
your "friends" say to that
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. one.
band?
: you Got a problem or a gripe? Ask
neone Yolonda Cayles, P.O. Box
evela- 19112, Chicago, IL 60619