ON TOUR-Whitney Houston continues her ‘Tm Your Body Tonight World Tour"
which kicked off on April 18 In Knoxville, TN. The 70-dty tour, which lies boon
sizzling across the U.S, and Canada, wiH continue through late summer. Houston
w* be performing in Raleigh on July 7, at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre.
Best American Products
Named In Marketplace
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-Rent-a
cars, razors and roach bait are three
American products and services that
are the best in the world, accoridng to
a special issue of Fortune magazine
devoted to competitiveness in the
American marketplace.
Some of the products are so new,
like an Amgen, Inc. drug that treats
anemia in kidney dialysis patients,
they aren’t even on the market.
Others have been household names
for generations.
The special issue released
Thursday and titled “The New
American Century” describes the
products as the best “year in and
year out.”
Computers and » other
communications equipment are
fatured prominently. At the other end
of the sacale are $3.50 Gillette Sensor
razors, Combat’s $4.29 roach-bait
traps and temporary services offered
by Manpower starting at $7 an hour.
The magazine said it combed the
marketplace for superior, non
military goods that feature some
combination of design excellence,
superior manufacturing, top
technology, reliability and value for
price.
Among the other products and
services singled out:
•Rental cars. Avis and Hertz with a
worldwide fleet of 800,000.
•Yachts. Brunswick Corp.’s 63-foot
Super Sun Sport featuring ceramic
tile floors, gold faucets and a $1.2
million price tag.
•Luxury goods. Judith Leiber
handbags ranging in price from $750
to $6,000.
•Backpacks. Osprey’s Xenith
backpack anatomically designed to
hug the body.
•Medical equipment. Acuson’s
ultrasound computer, which
improves the view of internal body
organs, and Osteonics’ titanium hip
joint implants, which last 30 years.
•Helicopters. Robinson’s R-22
chopper, costing just over $100,000.
•Apparel. Jockey briefs.
■Pens and pencils. Cross pen and
pencil sets.
•Computrers. Thinking Machines’
CM-2 computer that links thousands
of microprocessors together so the
computer works like a human mind.
•News services.CNN. for its
coverage of the Gulf War.
•Oil drilling. Smith Internationales
Dyna-drill motor, which can change
direction as it bores.
Kravitz Shouts Style,
Music Rated Highly
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-Lenny
Kravitz sounds a little like a popular
sport shoe commercial when pressed
to describe his creative process in
making music: “I just do it,” he says.
“I don’t demo stuff at all,” the
singer-songwriter says of his craft.
“When I go in the studio, it is to make
the record.” '
He says he made his latest album,
“Mama Said,” in spurts. “I would go
in and do some and have to go back on
the road, over a few months.”
Kravitz’s cryptic recording
methods seem to work. The album,
his second on Virgin Records, jumped
onto the charts in Cashbox Magazine,
at No. 43 in April.
His first album, “Let Love Rule,”
came out\in the fall of 1989 and
prompted Rolling Stone magazine
critics taname Kravitz best new
male singerr-Healso wrote the songs,
produced the-record and played most
of the instruments.
The 26-year-old also produced the
controversial song “Justify My
Love” for Madonna. The vidwo,
which depicted mild sado
masochism, bisexuality and steamy
sex scenes, was promptly banned on
MTV, Kravitz became embroiled in
his Iown dispute with singer
songwriter Ingrid Chavez over who
wrote the song.
Chavez says she wrote most of the
lyrics and was denied credit.
"Ingrid had written some of the
lyrics on the verses,”., Kravitz
acknowledges. “For certain personal
and professional reasons at the time,
we agreed not to put her name on it.
We signed a contract. She gets
royalties. It became a big hit and she
tried to make like she did the whole
thing.”
Kravitz says that Chavez had
nothing to do with his split and
impending divorce from actress Lisa
Bonet, best known for TV’s “The
Cospy Show.”
“That was our own personal,
reasons,” he said. They have one'
child.
Kravitz, son of actress Roxie
Roker, who played Helen Willi^ on
“The Jeffersons,” and TV executive
Sy Kravitz, grew up in Manhattan
near the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, which he said he loved.
And sure enough, the Saturday
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ran into Kravitz—in the Metropolitan
Museum.
He had just completed a publicity
trip through Europe, where his<our
will start this month. The second leg
will be Japan. “I did two weeks of 10
hours a day, talking to people who
want to understand how I write. For
me it is like I just do it.”
It wasn’t always that easy. After he
finished high school he cast about,
looking for a record company to give
him a contract.
“Some people wanted to sign me,”
he says. “It never worked out. The
music wasn’t black enough, they told
me. I discussed five or six record
deals from that time until I got the
record deal with Virgin. The
consensus was I’m black to them and
I’m doing a more white form of
music, whatever that means.
“They wanted me to change the
way I look, be more of a black
person.”
But he persevered.
“I kept practically living in the
studio and learning and playing for
people on demos so I could get in the
studio. I’d say, ‘I’ll play free. If it’s no
good, you can just erase it.’ I would
find every time I went in the studio I
would learn something to make me a
lot better.”
Finally, he says, he got antsy to do
his own music.
“I made *Let Love Rule.’ Three
fourths of the way through, I played it
for Steve Smith, a friend. He said, ‘I
think we can get a record deal.’ I
said, ‘Why don’t you manage me?’
The next day he showed up with
stacks of papers about record labels
to go see.”
Two or three weks later, allotted
five minutes at Virgin, Kravitz
popped in his tape. The person
listening called top executives, who
said, “Would you like to sign with
us?” on the spot.
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