Don’t Invest In Therapy, Just Listen To Fiona Sing

Fiona may be only 20, but she feels qualified to sing about anything she wants.

And anyone who says she just doesn’t have the experience to sing about life’s dark corners is, she says, whistling a sour melody.

“It’s very closed-minded and naive (to think that way” Apple said. “A lot of people who are saying that just don’t know today’s world.”

“Sullen Girl” concerns her rape at age 12 in the hallway of a New York apartment building. In “Sleep to Dream,” she slams an ex-lover. Her album “Tidal” is filled with emotionally raw songs that were written when she was 15.

Her critics “probably didn’t have their first relationship until they were 18,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “I had mine at 14. I had parents who were splitting up all the time. I know a lot about relationships.”

Loose talk

Janet Jackson, 31, on her new album, “The Velvet Rope”: “I’ve always written about what’s going on in my heart and in my life at the moment but this is the most personal album I’ve done to date. …I hope it’s thought-provoking for people.”

And she’s married? What a Travolta development!

Kelly Preston turns 35 today.

One person’s kindness is another’s insult

Whoopi Goldberg told Leah Garchik of the San Francisco Chronicle that she used to think it was wrong for blacks to play housekeepers and maids. Talking to the writers, she said, “was a revelation to me.” Many of the roles were based on real characters in the screenwriters’ lives. “These are their thank-yous. That never occurred to me before….”

And Vonnegut knows all about insults

Why do Kurt Vonnegut’s books still sell? Because young people today love them, the novelist told an audience in Englewood, Colo., on Saturday. And why is that? Because Vonnegut said, he writes simple sentences without semicolons.

Another, more intimate kind of surgery just might, though

John F. Kennedy Jr. underwent hand surgery at New York’s Lenos Hill Hospital, but neither he or his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, would comment. The hospital wouldn’t say anything, and Kennedy’s magazine, George, was less than helpful, too. “Yeah,” said spokeswoman Nancy Harermab, “that just doesn’t fall into the scope of the magazine.”

Others will cry when they see the price tags

There were tears all around when the new Versace fashion line debuted a week ago in Milan. “He always told me to be up, to be strong,” said fist-clenched Donatella Versace, sister of slain designer Gianni Versace. “I will show him my strength.”

And many of them, in return, feel the same

Woody Allen told the New York Daily News that his breakup with Mia Farrow, and the bad press that resulted from it, still rankles. “Between the court and some of the press and a portion of the public who have behaved so dishonestly and unconscionably, I don’t think I’ll ever find it in my heart to forgive them,” he said.

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