Stevie on Whitney

[MikeInNV]

The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has tributes to stars that passed in 2012. Stevie wrote the piece on Whitney Houston. I'll see if it's online to post (or if anyone else finds it, please also post).

[WildHearted]

Did you pick up a copy?

I'm interested to read this.

[TrueFaith77]

In the meantime, Armond White on Whitney: http://cityarts.info/2012/02/15/the-whitney-houston-dream-broadway-lessons-from-a-pop-diva/

[MikeInNV]

Did you pick up a copy?

I'm interested to read this.

Yes, I have a subscription. It would be a lot to transcribe, but Stevie talks about meeting her briefly when she was walking into a hotel and Whitney and Bobby were walking out, and they both had their Yorkies with them, so it was kind of a bonding moment. She said they seemed much happier and more together than they did on their reality show.

[SuiteShangriLa]

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[MikeInNV]

^^^^^ Thank you.

[SuiteShangriLa]

On the cover.

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Contents page.

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[mezzoforte]

I'm a little surprised they chose Stevie to do the tribute, but it's a very sweet article.

[michelej1]

Thank you for posting that.

I agree that I am surprised that they chose Stevie.

However, I saw the piece where Prince did Dick Clark and Prince really seemed to know Clark best from Prince's appearance on the Bandstand show. He wasn't a personal friend of Clark's. So maybe they wanted to get a perspective from people who only had incidental contact with the deceased. Maybe they didn't want someone who truly knew Whitney like Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin or Clive Davis because they wanted that outside view from a person who didn't really know them any better than the fans did, only that person happened to be a celebrity.

Michele

[MikeInNV]

If one more page can be uploaded, the Editor's Note talks about these tributes, and Stevie is mentioned there too. The Editor liked the fact that their shared moment was over their dogs and not the fact that they are both musical legends. I suppose it is somehow more humanizing, something lots of people can relate to, since most of us don't know what it's like to run in the same circles with Whitney or Stevie.

[CADreaming]

Two things stood out to me in Stevie's comments. She obviously has no recollection of this:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=10187&d=1329066955

And, she sounded like Bobby Brown was to blame for Whitney's addiction problem. Interesting coming from someone who should know your addiction is not someone else's fault. (Not that it helps living with another addict.)

[BombaySapphire3]

Two things stood out to me in Stevie's comments. She obviously has no recollection of this:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=10187&d=1329066955


Yeah the first thing I thought of when she said she had only met Whitney once was this pic from Billboard in 1988 when they were on the UK leg of touring behind Tango.

[MacShadowsBall]

Two things stood out to me in Stevie's comments. She obviously has no recollection of this:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=10187&d=1329066955

And, she sounded like Bobby Brown was to blame for Whitney's addiction problem. Interesting coming from someone who should know your addiction is not someone else's fault. (Not that it helps living with another addict.)

Yeah the first thing I thought of when she said she had only met Whitney once was this pic from Billboard in 1988 when they were on the UK leg of touring behind Tango.

I think its fairly safe to say that Stevie doesn't remember much of anything from '88-93.

It was a very good article written by Stevie on Whitney Houston. :cool:

[michelej1]

And, she sounded like Bobby Brown was to blame for Whitney's addiction problem. Interesting coming from someone who should know your addiction is not someone else's fault. (Not that it helps living with another addict.)

I agree. Brown might not have been good for Whitney just as Stevie says she and Joe should not have been together when they were both addicts. But the suggestion that Brown led Whitney astray and caused her problems is a wrong one. Michele

[henryscutter]

Fair or not, I think most people thought he was draggin her down. Her image was more classy and sqeaky clean. He had is issues before they got together, and after they got together they both became crackheads. Obviously we all have to take personal responsibility, but that is the impression of the general public.

[michelej1]

Yes, I know that is the general impression. I tend to think that because her mom traveled so much, singing on the road, that maybe Whitney did not have that stable an upbringing and might have had more in common with Brown all along., despite surface appearances.

Stevie is something else with her television viewing habits. LOL " Being Bobby Brown." Stevie are you going to tell us about the Kardashians next? Let me not be a hypocrite. I can tell all the Kardashians apart and I never could differentiate between Eunice, Pat, Kathleen and Jean Kennedy. I always knew Rosemary because she was overweight, but otherwise ....

Michele

[CADreaming]

Yes, I know that is the general impression. I tend to think that because her mom traveled so much, singing on the road, that maybe Whitney did not have that stable an upbringing and might have had more in common with Brown all along., despite surface appearances.

Stevie is something else with her television viewing habits. LOL " Being Bobby Brown." Stevie are you going to tell us about the Kardashians next? Let me not be a hypocrite. I can tell all the Kardashians apart and I never could differentiate between Eunice, Pat, Kathleen and Jean Kennedy. I always knew Rosemary because she was overweight, but otherwise ....

Michele

Really?! Oh, I know all those Kennedys! I used to could even name all of them -- in birth order -- and their children. Why? I don't know. I had a book with the family tree and I've always been good with memorization. Ah, childhood pasttimes...

But, come on - anyone could spot Eunie's jawline from 100 miles! ;)

[michelej1]

Really?! Oh, I know all those Kennedys! I used to could even name all of them -- in birth order -- and their children. Why? I don't know. I had a book with the family tree and I've always been good with memorization. Ah, childhood pasttimes...

But, come on - anyone could spot Eunie's jawline from 100 miles! ;)

No don't damage my street cred. I do know all the Kennedys' DOBs and their children. But if you laid out pictures of the girls, I am not going to be able to tell the sisters apart unless it is an early photo and Jean is still small. Then I know her. Once they are women, I cannot tell them apart. But I know all their kids. I don't know the grand kids though. I know the names of Maria Shrivers kids, but have no idea what they look like.

But actually I collect for the Kennedys, the Lindberghs and our very own knuckleheads and I love EMK very, very much.

Michele

[michelej1]

This reminds me: I was laughing about Stevie's letter to Kanye West, but when Ted Kennedy died, I wrote a six paged letter to Audrey Niffenegger and it was all about moments I think survive in time, that I think don't pass really, but keep existing on some plane. I am not sure how much longer I will be able to elude the asylum, truth be told.

Michele

[CADreaming]

No don't damage my street cred. I do know all the Kennedys' DOBs and their children. But if you laid out pictures of the girls, I am not going to be able to tell the sisters apart unless it is an early photo and Jean is still small. Then I know her. Once they are women, I cannot tell them apart. But I know all their kids. I don't know the grand kids though. I know the names of Maria Shrivers kids, but have no idea what they look like.

But actually I collect for the Kennedys, the Lindberghs and our very own knuckleheads and I love EMK very, very much.

Michele

Oh, you lost me there. I didn't keep up with Maria, Caroline - that generation. I know Caroline has a daughter named Rose and a son named John and maybe a daughter named Tatiana? I'm rusty. But, I can tell Eunice, Jean and Pat apart.

[Jondalar]

Stevie has too much time on her hands.

[michelej1]

Stevie has too much time on her hands.

You know Stevie probably consumes a lot of media while she's on the road, because they have a lot of time to kill when they're touring. I was thinking that she may see just as much tv when she's working than when she's not.

Get on the internet, Stevie. That'll keep you busy!

Michele

[Dreamz19]

Fair or not, I think most people thought he was draggin her down. Her image was more classy and sqeaky clean. He had is issues before they got together, and after they got together they both became crackheads. Obviously we all have to take personal responsibility, but that is the impression of the general public.

Whitney admitted that she was doing drugs before Bobby and he started doing the hard stuff after they got together.

[PolishStevieFan]

I am pretty sure that she had done drugs long before she met Bobby Brown. That's what Jennifer Holliday said during interview after Houston's death. And I remember when Whitney said in the early 90's that "she is no Diana Ross" -a classy and elegant diva... Sadly she was right.