Whitney Houston

I love this. It’s Whitney Houston’s first tv appearance. Whitney’s nervous, I think, but that doesn’t affect her performance in the least. She looks perfect, her nerves just adding to her innocence and vulnerability. I remember my first television appearance. It was MTV’s half hour comedy hour. The makeup artists had to mix a new […]

I am broken up by Whitney Houston’s death. I just watched her sing the star spangled banner, the video passed around in the last few weeks, mostly as a reaction to Steven Tyler’s recent rendition, which I didn’t think was so bad. It’s a hard song to sing. Why don’t you try it? I can’t […]