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Nick's
AOL Chat Transcript - July 10
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Source: AOL
MrLiveGuy: Hey guys -- can you give us a sneak peek as to what you
are wearing to the ESPY's?
Sue Nick Live: Sue- I have the DKNY dress on with a spaghetti shirt
and diamonds. Nick's got on his Hugo Boss shirt and looks pretty
good!
MrLiveGuy: Sue and Nick- who are you most excited to see tonight at
the ESPY's?
Sue Nick Live: Sue-I'm most excited to see Snoop Dogg do his thing
up there!
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I'm excited to see all of the sports stars. I'm
just going to have to go out to see the audience and see who I'm
excited to see. I know Samuel L. Jackon is going to be here!
Question: Nick- Are you doing a duet with Britney Spears?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I had someone from back home call and tell me
I'm doing a duet with Britney! No, I'm not, I had no clue about
this!
Question: nick, do you have a title for your solo album?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-It's called "Now or Never"
Sue Nick Live: Sue-It's hot out here, it's a lot of fun and it's
pretty crazy. A lot of cheering going on!
Sue Nick Live: Ncik-I have to second that!
Question: Nick- What kind of vocal training do you take?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I train myself now. I've been in this business
for a long time so I train myself.
Question: Nick- When does the Backstreet Boys album come out?
Sue Nick Live: Nick- The next Backstreet album is in the middle of
being recorded so there is no date set yet.
Question: Nick- Will you tour with your brother this summer?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I don't know, I don't believe so but I don't
know.
Sue Nick Live: Nick-That's an option.
MrLiveGuy: This is for sue and nick- who would win in a game of one
on one? I think Sue would!
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I can't even be a part of that question, that's
not fair! I'll just call the shots out!
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I only play basketball for fitness! LOL
Question: Nick, What advice do you have for me... I've been working
hard to get a singing career going, but any advice would come as a
big help? Thanks.
Sue Nick Live: Nick-Mainly to work hard at your dream. A lot of
times people give up in the beginning. Things don't happen
overnight, you gotta work for it! Find out what your talents are.
Sometimes your talents aren't always what you're working for.
Question: Nick- What is on your scedule for the next few
weeks?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-The next few weeks I'm going to be in LA doing
some intense stuff. I'll be
Question: Nick, do you listen to country music? Would you would ever
record a country song? It'll make some people mighty happy if you
did.
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I don't know, I like all music.... I don't know
if I'd ever do a country song but who knows, I can't tell what I'm
going to do in the future.
MrLiveGuy: What is your favortite childhood memory?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I was an accident prone kid and I had a bike
accident and broke my arm. Those were our WORST memories! LOL
Question: Nick, how do you feel about the older audiences, such as
older women who like you, going after your little brother?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-This is an issue! My brother is 14 and he thinks
he's older than he is! LOL But I guess that's alright! I'm a
protective older brother.
Question: This is a question for Nick Carter. If you were'nt a
singer what would you be?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-Unfortunately I was not blessed in the
basketball department! Who knows what I'd be doing. I have always
been into watersports so I'd probably be racing waterboats or
NASCARS or something like that.
Question: Hey Nick! My name is Angela. Congratulations on the boat
races you have won! I was just wondering is your solo album done and
when is the first single coming out? Luv ya!
Sue Nick Live: Nick-First single should be coming out sometime next
month and the album around October. Right now I'm in discussions
with the boys and we're trying to see what's best. Right now on my
agenda is my album.
Question: Sue- Have you and Nick played basketball together? Who
won?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-We have a hard enough time getting in touch with
each other on the phone! We've been playing phone tag for the past 3
weeks! I'd probably never play her, I'm
Sue Nick Live: too scared!
Question: Hi Nick, my name's Brandi. If you could be any animal in
the world, what would you be and why?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I'd be something in the ocean...maybe a dolphin
or a shark.
MrLiveGuy: What are you doing after the show tonight- is there a
party?
Sue Nick Live: Nick-I'm going to rehearsals tonight. I'm not as bad
as I used to be! LOL
Sue Nick Live: Nick-Sorry we couldn't get to everybody! Take
care!
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Next Teen Idol?
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Source: 48
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(CBS) From Frank Sinatra to Frankie Avalon, from Elvis to the Beatles,
teen idols have been a part of American culture for decades.
Now, 14-year-old Aaron Carter wants to be the next big thing. He’s
got the look and the moves, and he’s got something extra: his mom,
Jane Carter. Harold Dow reports.
Say Jane: “You have to be tough. You can't be nice. You can't say
yes to everything that everybody wants from you. Sometimes, you have
to be the bad guy. And you're gonna make people mad here and there,
but you gotta not worry about that. You just gotta worry about number
one, and that's my kids.”
Jane is Aaron’s manager, and she is determined to make him a
superstar.
“I taught my kids they could do anything they want to do,” Jane
says.
What could this unassuming Florida housewife and mother of five know
about the cutthroat world of pop music? Turns out she knows plenty:
her oldest son Nick is a member of the Backstreet Boys, one of the
most popular groups in the world over the past 10 years.
What Jane learned from watching Nick’s rise to the top, she hopes to
teach to Aaron.
The music business is “ugly for the most part, the business side,”
she says. Although the group sold over 55 million albums, and sold out
concert halls worldwide, Jane and her husband Bob felt Nick didn’t
get his fair share. Without realizing it, they had signed a contract
limiting their son’s take of the royalties.
She decided that she wouldn’t let the same thing happen with her
other son. Thanks to the influence of his big brother and his own
natural talent, Aaron began performing when he was 9. Then Jane
decided to go toe to toe with the big guys, taking complete control of
Aaron’s career.
“I listened to a lot to people who knew what they were doing. I
sought out people that I felt were competent and professional and
tried to pick up on their knowledge,” she says.
Aaron first hit it big overseas. Appearing with only a couple of
dancers to pre-recorded back-up tracks, Aaron began selling out
concerts and creating a huge fan base of teen-age and pre-teen girls.
Success in the United States soon followed.
At 14, Aaron is poised to take the next step: to the superstar status
his brother has enjoyed. He and his mother are raising the stakes,
with better dancers, a live band, a real stage set.
The new tour is called “Aaron’s Winter Party." The Carters
hope it will put Aaron over the top to stay. The production costs
about $30,000 per day, Jane says.
Jane even hired a high-end choreographer, Brian Friedman. Brian’s
last client was Britney Spears.
“We just have to make the kids happy, make them happy," says
Brian. "They want to be standing up for the full show; we don’t
want anybody sitting down or getting tired. They want to see people
flipping, they want to see colors, they want to hear up-tempo music.”
Despite the work, Aaron enjoys what he does: “It hasn’t really
gotten to me – I mean a couple times I’ve been like, ‘I don’t
want to do this anymore’ but in the long run, I would never give it
up for anything.”
In five weeks, Carter and his 60-person entourage will criss-cross the
country, playing 23 cities in 20 states. That means a lot of time in
his home away from home: the tour bus.
One week into the tour, and Aaron's Winter Party has come to Lowell,
Mass., just 30 miles from Boston. As his stage is being set for the
night's show, two teen-agers prepare for what they hope will be
biggest night of their careers as Aaron Carter fans.
Katie and Eilleen are best friends. They finish each other’s
sentences, and they really, really love Aaron Carter.
They don’t know it, but 48 Hours has arranged for Katie and Eileen
to get the surprise of a lifetime. They get to meet Aaron
Carter.
With showtime two hours away, Jane makes her final inspections. What
is going through her mind? “I think about all the fun that they’re
going to have watching the show tonight that we’ve worked really
hard on and that Aaron’s going to really give them his all,” she
says.
Jane watches from the sound board, making sure everything goes
according to plan. Katie and Eileen are in the 10th row as Aaron gives
a great performance.
“I am proud of myself, and I’m proud of my kids,” says
Jane.
Since 48 Hours first aired this story in May, Aaron has completed his
third album and will be back on tour in August.
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Idol
Maker
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Source: 48 Hours
(CBS) Three teen idols - Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC
- dominate today’s pop music scene. Together, they sell millions of
records, make millions of dollars and have millions of fans.
The also have something else in common: manager Johnny Wright. [JW was
the Boys' manager up until 98]
“I know what a star is to me,” Wright tells Troy Roberts. “Now
it’s my job to go out and convince the world of that.”
Spears calls him “a great friend, a talent, a cool guy.” NSYNC’s
Justin Timberlake and Chris Kirkpatrick call him a master of the music
business. “He goes beyond what a manager should do,” says
Timberlake. “You can tell he always takes pride in making sure the
acts he’s involved with have a great show.”
Wright, 41, started small in Cape Cod., Mass., as a music-loving
teen-ager with dreams.
“My mother plays keyboards,“ he says. “She was an organist for
the church. So she had a musical background and I used to hear her all
the time, playing music and she was a big record fan – Al Green,
Marvin Gaye.”
When she wasn’t around, Wright would sneak into her collection and
start playing different records.
Wright says that success is often being in the right place at the
right time. Maybe that’s because he was a small-town disc jockey in
the 1980s when he got a call that would change his life.
“All of a sudden I get a call, he says 'I got these five guys I’m
gonna put them on the road, can’t afford a big bus. I know you have
a friend who has a little van. Can you drive ‘em around for 3
weeks?'”
Three weeks became four and a half years and the group he was driving
around was New Kids on the Block.
With the band’s success, Wright’s career was launched; he rose
from driver to roadie to manager, becoming among the first
African-Americans with such a position in pop music.
“I think this is an industry where the only color that’s important
is green,” Wright says, adding that anyone with a hit can do
well.
Over the next 10 years, Wright found himself in the right place at the
right time over and over again. That remarkable timing has yielded
substantial rewards: the Backstreet Boys have grossed more than $150
million dollars in record sales, NSYNC, $250 million. In four years,
Britney Spears has earned more than $200 million.
Wright says taking on 16-year-old Spears back in 1998 was something of
a risk because anytime you put a female act with like an act like
NSYNC or Backstreet Boys, you risk alienating the female fans in the
audience.
He helped her develop her flashy performances and got her on the right
tours.
A millionaire many times over, Wright has his music headquarters and
recording studio, not in Los Angeles or New York, but in a resort-like
setting in a homey subdivision of Orlando, Fla.
It has a pool, bowling alley, volleyball court, putting green, and
jacuzzis, all designed to stimulate his clients’ creativity.
“We decided to make it comfortable,” Wright says, “so if people
were in the studio and they were having a creative problem, they could
run out and jump in the pool, go play volleyball get on jet skis, play
basketball, play golf to bring back those creative juices.”
Always looking for the next big thing, Wright is now grooming Triple
Image, a sister act with Brianna, Bridget and Britney, with an eye on
the Tween audience – 12 and younger. Triple Image's first album
makes its debut Aug. 13, and then the group will go on tour with Aaron
Carter in August and September.
Wright claims there is no winning formula. “If you don’t have a
hit record,” he says, “it doesn’t matter how good-looking the
guys are, or how well they can dance or how well they sing.”
In the end, Wright claims he was blessed. “There’s a higher plan
here than what I have on paper,” he says.
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Source: New York Post
By: VINCENT MORRIS
WHEN she brought her Pretty Woman smile to the Capitol in May, few
of the star-struck fans who squeezed in to see Julia Roberts had even
heard of Rett Syndrome. But she spent a day explaining how the
neurological disorder afflicts young girls, and got lawmakers from the
House and Senate to talk about it, too.
In the world where celebrities mix with politicians, that's pretty
good work for a day - especially if lawmakers agree this fall to boost
funding for Rett research from $3 million to $15 million, as Roberts
has asked.
Yet with more stars descending on Washington, critics wonder whether
the trend has gone too far - say, when Kermit the Frog testified on
animal research.
Star backing is no guarantee a particular bill will pass, and last
week provided a perfect example. For months, Ted Danson, Rob Reiner,
Barbra Streisand, Christie Brinkley and other stars wrote lawmakers
urging them to vote "no" on the White House plan to bury
nuclear waste under Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
Last week, the Republican-led House voted overwhelmingly in favor of
the Yucca project. Senators on Tuesday did the same - handing a major
victory to President Bush.
Experienced staff claim lawmakers are open to persuasion from movie
stars and shoe salesmen alike, and that, ultimately, decisions are
made on merits. Still, having a big star can help.
"It depends on how much credibility a star has. If they have a
lot, it can be influential," said Alison Buist, a staffer for Sen.
Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) who handles issues dear to celebs - education
and health.
In what will probably set a new standard for celebrity activism, U2's
Bono recently returned from a 12-day trip with Treasury Secretary Paul
O'Neill through Africa, where the rocker and the Republican discussed
Third World debt.
The trip won broad praise, and even conservatives in Congress,
including retiring Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), are becoming open to the
idea of helping poorer countries.
Kevin Richardson of Backstreet Boys, a native of rural Kentucky,
learned about mining's impact on forests during a fly-over with Robert
Kennedy Jr.
But the pop star's June 6 appearance on Capitol Hill exposed the
resentment some lawmakers feel toward celebrities who venture onto
their turf.
One Hill skeptic noted jokingly that Richardson's "Just Within
Reach Foundation" Web site touts his recent appearance on
"Celebrity Fear Factor" and includes numerous
"glamour" shots of Richardson, not coal fields.
"It's just a joke to think that this witness can provide members
of the United States Senate information on important geological and
water quality issues," said Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who
boycotted the hearing rather than listen to the teen heartthrob.
Star warriors:
STAR // CAUSE
Bono // Third World debt
Julia Roberts // Rett Syndrome research
Christie Brinkley // Opposition to nuclear energy
Elton John // AIDS research
Kevin Richardson // Enviromental issues, colon cancer
Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali // Parkinson's disease research
Christopher Reeve // Spinal-cord injuries research
Barbra Streisand, Ted Danson // Environment
Rob Reiner // Education and environment
Richard Gere // Tibet
Angie Harmon // Family privacy
Katie Couric // Colorectal screening
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