Rachel, I typed the good parts of the magazine article. I added some comments if you don't mind. I'd like to know what you think too.

[RTWM says: why, oh, why can't WH do a photo shoot for each mag cover? Recycling old photos isn't doing it for me anymore. All the other major stars do photo shoots? Why can't Whitney? She's so damn pretty, it's not that hard to make her look beautiful for a mag cover. Do you think Mariah will do any mag cover articles using 2-year old photos? Jeez!]

With 5-octave vocals, a dazzling production and high-style dance and fashion, Whitney Houston is taking the music world by storm with her first concert tour in five years.

[RTWM says this is not true: WH toured Europe in 1998 and Asia in 1997]

No one is suprised by the success of the tour or the brilliance of Whitney's voice.

[this is not true: many dates were cancelled and/or not sold out; I wasn't surprised by the brilliance of her voice in Toronto -- I was SHOCKED!]

But the devine diva is creating quite a stir around the world, and her concert tickets are in great demand.

[RTWM says this is not true: read concert reviews]

Kicking off in Chicago, and going on to thrill audiences in Detroit, Boston, NYC, Atlanta, Memphis, L.A. and other major US cities, she and her entourage have criss-crossed the country and created glowing headlines in the process. She is about to take the spectacular show to Europe, where a ticket frenzy already is in motion.

[PHOTOS from the magazine: mostly recycled. WH + BBBB + BK at the IAIA Awards 1998; WH + Mariah at the MTV awards 1998; Picture from Detroit(?) concert; Promotion piture given to every single media; head-to-tow pic from Oscar red carpet walk (WH + BK) black top + floor-sweeping skirt; WH + BBBB with a scarf she wore on People Mag November 1995 [new picture?]; WH + Cissy at 1997 Grammy Awards party [new picture]; concert pic from Chicago; 1999 Arista Pre-Grammy party (red Versace dress).]

She reveals she has mixed emotions about the tour. "I love performing: that's what I do," she says. "I love singing and I love it with my soul The actual touring part is a strain. If you can just keep your focus on what you really love to do and what you're out there for, it can be a joyous thing."

"You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

Whitney adds that this time out, she wanted to do theaters rather than arenas; most of the venues have seating for 5000 to 6000 people. "I wanted to be closer to the people, more intimate," she explains.

During the interview, she explains that she is not pushing her daughter into show business prematurely, but that BK asked to participate and that already she is showing an inclination for performing.

[RTWM says: I am glad that WH cleared that up. But I still think a 5-year-old child should not be in the public eye like that, in the age of media mongers. They like Bobbie-Kris now, but she will, sooner or later, be subject to the same scrutiny that her parents endure. It is hard for anyone to go thru that, but for a little kid, it could cause serious psychological damage.]

Bobby chimes in, "All I can say is that they don't live with us; they never have", he says of critics. "Obviously they don't know love because if they knew love, they could look into our eyes and tell, without even reading the paper or listenning to the tabloids or thinking about things that have happened personally with us.

[funny, I don't recall ever hearing anyone say "WH and BBBB are not in love". I recall them saying "Bobby Brown has a warrant out for this arrest in Florida for failing a drug test, thus violation his parole." That is the issue.]

"If the naysayers, would just do that, then I promise they'll get more music from her, they'll get more movies from us, they'll get everything they deserve". But it just takes them to back off and give us our space. Stop being cruel... it's our prerogative to love eachother. We can put all this in a song. She wants to dance with somebody who loves her."

[lol! is that a threat of a bribe?]

[Bad Boy Bobby Brown scores points with me for using the play-with-words with both his and WH's songs ("Don't Be Cruel", "My Prerogative", "I wanna Dance w/Somebody").]