oh wow, guys. this is HUGE (p.s. how amazing do Whitney's legs look!!):
Oprah: Houston interview is best she's ever done
Associated Press
2:43 p.m. CDT, September 7, 2009
CHICAGO - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey calls her upcoming sit-down with singer Whitney Houston "the best interview I've ever done."
Winfrey said Monday in comments provided to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions that she "can't think of a moment, ever, when I had a stronger connection to the person I was interviewing."
According to Harpo Productions, Houston's daughter and producer Clive Davis attended the interview.
Houston also is to perform her new song "I Didn't Know My Own Strength."
The 46-year-old superstar hasn't done a major TV interview since 2002, when she addressed questions about her drug use from ABC's Diane Sawyer.
Winfrey kicks off the 24th season of Chicago-based "The Oprah Winfrey Show" with the two-part interview with Houston on Sept. 14 and 15.
By Keith Caulfield and Monica Herrera
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston returned to the U.S. pop album chart in grand style on Wednesday as her first album in seven years debuted at No. 1.
"I Look To You" becomes Houston's fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 304,801 copies during the week ended September 6, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
It's by far Houston's best opening sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.
"I Look To You" is also the singer's first chart-topper since the Houston-fueled "The Bodyguard" soundtrack spent 20 weeks at No. 1 in 1993. The albums are joined by Houston's two previous toppers: her self-titled set in 1986, and her 1987 sophomore set, "Whitney."
Early returns showed "I Look To You" also debuted at No. 1 in Canada, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, according to her Arista Records label.
*whitney-fan.com*
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that video is just so elegant and classy and simple and poignant and perfect. she's impossibly beautiful. MY LAWD!
just to have been such a die-hard Whitney fan for soooo many years now, and to have lived the past decade worried about if she'd ever even make it through ALIVE.... to witness this great transformation into a strong, determined, humble and gracious woman. it's unbelievable. she's such an inspiration!
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