Whitney Houston sang live (to a a track) last night on “Dancing with The Stars,” which is a pretty big deal for any artist these days. Good for her! If there’s one thing to be thankful for this week in the Celeb World, it’s Whitney’s comeback. She also got a surprise: cousin Dionne Warwick was waiting for her at the side of the stage as Whitney finished “Million Dollar Bill.” Whitney is working hard out there at age 46, showing girls half her age how it’s done. And she looks great…Now all she needs are some Grammy nominations…
…James Franco’s “General Hospital” experiment is one weird ride. On yesterday’s episode he uttered what had to have been the funniest bit of dialogue in the show’s history. After using the word “dialectic” in a speech about art, he then told the girl he was trying to seduce about a lost love. This was the gist of it: “She was murdered by a man she didn’t even know. He used a number 4 steak knife, and then was so despondent that he ran to an overpass and threw himself off. Pieces of his body were scattered all over. To this day, I can’t eat meat.”
What is really going on here? For one thing, later someone said the word “visceral” in another speech. “Dialectic” and “visceral” are words that have never been spoken on a soap opera. So, who knows? All of it has to do with a real life artist named (John) Carter with whom Franco has collaborated on a number of projects. Carter, as he’s known, is into detached body parts and prosthetics.
James is playing his real life friend as a murderous one-named artist called Franco who is part Carter and part Banksy, the real life mysterious British graffiti artist. It’s all very “meta” and very, very unlike a show in which the central character is a mobster doing a bad Michael Corleone imitation. (You can’t make these things up.) Will this trend catch on? If so, soon we’ll have Leonardo Di Caprio playing an environmentalist on “As the World Turns” and Angelina Jolie as an adoption expert on “One Life to Live.” Crazier things have happened…
…By the way: the song used in the “Precious” commercials is not in the movie. But it works well in the trailer. “Happy” is an old fashioned hot single, taken from Leona Lewis’s new album, “Echo,” which was just released. J Records’ Larry Jackson has put together a strong collection of potential hits for Lewis, and she sings the heck out of them. Lewis, of course, is part of Clive Davis’s fourth quarter attack on the charts that includes Whitney, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, and Alicia Keys. Really, Clive started Arista Records thirty five years ago. Unbelievable…
November 25th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Thanks for confirming that Whitney sang live. I thought she did and she did an amazing job. She is certainly back!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I felt she was singing live on the first song – however – the second song was so painfully bad that all the comeback good she did on the first one was completely erased on the second – it was embarrassing.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Roger,
You forgot to mention that Whitney’s performance was dreadful. She was totally off key, and rather than “working it,” as you claim, she barely moved during the entire song. I know that you’re on the Clive Davis payroll, but seriously, you can’t pretend that Whitney’s performance was anything other than terrible.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:07 am
“Dionne Warwick was waiting for her at the side of the stage as Whitney finished “Million Dollar Bill.”
ummm, no, did you even watch the show, she was sitting in the audience just like all the other guest stars like Ozzy. She went over bent down and kissed her after she sang.
Apparently you stole this from another site like you accuse other that you claim stole from you.
(btw, her voice is gone, to much crack smoking apparently.)
November 25th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Every single performance I have seen since this so-called comeback has been dreadful!! Off key lacking any kind of luster and definitely an “older-sounding” Whitney! Hope with more practice and support she does comeback to her great singing vibes!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
whitney sounded so much better sunday, last night what happened?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
wow looks like MarkyMark has a stick up his arse.
Whitney did a great job on Dancing, though i did think their sound mixer stunk, she nailed her part amazing. Whitney also looked great.
Stop accusing Roger of being on Payroll. He has proven time and time again he is independent and has his own mind and agenda.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
py…then check out on youtube whitney’s performances in germany and italian x-factor for true comparisons
November 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
DIONNE WENT THERE SPECIFICALLY TO SEE HER CUZ WHITNEY AND GIVE SUPPORT. IT WAS REPORTED DAYS AGO THAT DIONNE WAS SHOWING UP WITH HER SON DAMON ELLIOT TO DWTS FOR ONE REASON ONLY.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I saw Whitney on DWTS and I think she was wonderful. She looks beautiful. I agree that her voice is different; but who wouldn’t expect that, with everything that she has been through? Considering what she has been through, she’s made a terrific comeback and I wish her only continued success. We lost MJ; at least we still have our Whitney!!
November 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Yeah, some comeback. No radio stations are playing her new songs and the album is #65 and dropping fast. Plus, all of her live appearances on television has shown that her once great voice is now a shadow of what it was. She needs to adjust her music to suit her new voice, not push it so hard and stop trying to recreate her early success.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Give Whitney a break !! She has been out of the business for over 8 years. Only recently, she is starting to sing live & getting use to her singing voice . Houston needs to be given time to build herself back up. She still has her vocal talent if you saw her perform on “Oprah ” and Italy’s X-Factor (on youtube). Her North American sales is already over 800k ( this day & age is great ) & worldwide sales is multi- platinum. Her comeback is a smash! I still give her much credit because she is not a lip- synch artist like Britney Spears, Madonna, and Janet Jackson. And she still has a better singing voice than most of the comtemporary popular singers in the music business.