İlk albümünün yayımlanmasının üzerinden neredeyse 30 yıl geçmiş. Bu tür bir mega star’lığı taşımak bir yandan hayatınızın laneti. Kendinizi hep çok ama çok büyük görüyorsunuz. Öylesiniz de... Ama satış listeleri öyle söylemiyor. Hele 50’nize geldiyseniz ve o beş oktavlık ses de yerli yerindeyse işin psikolojik yükü ağırlaşıyor. Bir yandan eski şarkılarınız 400 milyonları yakalamış, diğer yandan yeni şarkılarınız için ‘trendlere uygunluk’ kaygınız var ama olduramıyorsunuz. Mariah Carey son albümünde bu ikilemi iyi analiz etmiş.
#Mariah CareyBillur gibi güçlü sesiyle genç yaşında büyük bir şöhret kazanmıştı. Uzun yıllardır müzik sahnelerinin en büyük yıldızlarından biri olmayı başaran ünlü şarkıcı zorluklarla başlayan hayatını çok çalışarak bambaşka bir noktaya taşıdı.
#Mariah CareyST. POELTEN - Austrian incest father, Josef Fritzl, used his daughter like his property, says the prosecutor at the beginning of a controversial trial that has shocked the world entirely. Hiding his face behind a blue folder, Fritzl, accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a cramped and windowless dungeon and fathering her seven children, pleads guilty to rape and incest but not guilty to murder and enslavement
ISTANBUL - The Conrad Istanbul is not uniquely shaped for Istanbul, a city that architecturally is mostly populated with sharp pointed squares and rectangles. Its shape recalls the wavy roofs on fountains and over portals like those at Topkapı Palace and the Sultan Ahmet Fountain.
Every year, toward the end of December, warnings come from some of the conservative Islamic voices in Turkey. They advise their co-religionists to avoid indulging in New Year’s Eve celebrations, which they see as a "Christian tradition." Some of them, especially the most orthodox, even go as far as saying that Muslims will be betraying their faith if they sympathize with Santa Claus or Christmas trees.
NEW YORK - Tom Cruise’s new film ’Valkyrie,’ a World War II thriller portraying the German resistance to Adolf Hitler, is a risky one to make and not just because of the sensitive subject matter. Cruise has been trying to rehabilitate his image Ğ and few public relations experts regularly advise donning a German army uniform to engender warm feelings
Sopot, POLAND-Some years ago, I began working on a plan to get rid of the month of December. I still have a bit of refining to do, but the basic outline I came up with was for 11 months of eight-day weeks. The goal here was to go straight from November into January. I suppose we would still have to contend with some kind of New Year’s event but my idea would have eliminated a large measure of other holiday nonsense. This plan also would have excised my birthday from the calendar.