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When she was 22, she released her self-titled debut album, which has sold more than 13 million copies in the United States; she went on to have hits like "The Greatest Love of All" and "I Will
Houston, we have a drug problem
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Whitney Houston, who released her first album in four years this week, has succeeded in getting the public's attention—but not for her music.
Just Whitney comes a little more than a year after Houston, now 39, signed a reported $100 million contract to stay at Arista Records.
Instead, the buzz is about Houston's admissions of drug use, her erratic behavior and her frail appearance.
"I think Whitney's lost it a little bit," says Delia Pena, of Bayonne, N.J., one of thousands of fans who waited outside Lincoln Center Sunday to see the Grammy-winning star in a mini-concert that aired on Good Morning America yesterday.
Always Love You."
Those glory days, however seem far away. Over the past few years, the singer has been dogged by controversy, from her tumultuous 10-year marriage to bad boy singer Bobby Brown to her missed concert appearances.
She looked so emaciated at a concert for Michael Jackson last year that there were rumors she was dying.
And in 2000, Houston was charged with marijuana possession when an airport security guard found the drug in her purse.
Brown has a history of drug and alcohol arrests, including an arrest last month in Atlanta on drug and traffic charges.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," said Houston, who says
After years denying drug use, Houston confirmed in an interview last week with Diane Sawyer on ABC's "Primetime Live" that she had used cocaine, marijuana and pills.
she is using prayer to help her get over drugs.
The ABC special was a ratings success, landing approximately 21 million viewers.
But Houston's thinness and defensiveness didn't impress critics.
The Washington Post dubbed the interview "Whitney's Weird Chat," while The Miami Herald said the singer appeared "strung out."
"She wasn't humble ... she came off very flip," said Karu Daniels, who wrote about the interview in his weekly column on EURWeb, an urban entertainment Web site.
Still, the interview may also have garnered some sympathy for the star.
"It's kind of clear that Whitney is in the middle of a major personal crisis, and I think women feel for her, because it's sad," said Michelle Santosusso, program and music director for the Los Angeles adult contemporary station Hot 92 Jamz.
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9 Night hunter of the future
14 Pear-shaped instrument
15 Behind schedule
16 Articles of faith
17 Start of an invention
18 MP's prey
19 Multiplication word
20 Liquid measure
21 Simple card game
22 Conductor's sticks
23 Put on cargo
25 Forced onward
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29 Black cuckoo
30 Stitch
33 Altitude
37 Over
39 Split
40 Audible kiss
42 Yemen port
43 Ganders
45 Nomadic
47 Possessive pronoun
48 Vitamin fig.
50 Pockmark
51 Applying epoxy
54 Channel swimmer of 1926
58 Orts
60 Help out
62 Simon or Sedaka
63 Vigilant
64 Meditate
65 Pair
66 Feudal lord
67 Leer
68 Slave of the pas
69 Added shading
70 Express sorrow
71 Raise
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2 CPA's task
3 Secretarial course: abbr.
4 Sultry summer stretches
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6 Cut, like lumber
7 Was a candidate
8 __Aviv-Jaffa
9 Daughter of Claudius
10 Produce a literary work
11 Soft drink
12 Utopia
13 Fling
22 Open container
24 One of the Gabor sisters
26 Repugnant
28 Ape
31 Tied
32 Left
33 Thus
34 Stead
35 1976 Barbra Streisand hit
36 Trigger treat
38 Drink mixer
41 Quite heavily involved
44 Forced out
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle.
violently
46 Conclude
49 God of the lower world
52 Extensive
53 Measuring instrument
55 Employ again
56 Climbing vine
57 Senior
58 Ocean extract
59 Muse of history
61 Wight or Skye
64 Hay storage
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