While 1990 was a breakthrough year for SINEAD O'CONNOR, culminating in her first No. 1 hit, "Nothing Compares 2 You," the Irish pop singer says it was a time tempered by pain. "I think I'm much wiser in a lot of ways, as far as intellect is concerned. But I'm also a lot more emotionally screwed up than I was before, "says O'Connor, 24, who has been living separately from her husband, rock drummer JOHN REYNOLDS. "I'd be a liar if I said anything other than that it has been extremely emotionally traumatic. The fact that people think of me as a 'star' places enormous strain on me. So I 'm psychologically quite screwed up in ways that I wasn't before. But it's good for that to have happened now, while I'm still young and have the time to work it out and get over it, rather than later on. I can really understand why musicians end up taking drugs."
NO GO FOR GARRY TRUDEAU
When Doonesbury cartoonist GARRY TRUDEAU, 42, applied for a visa to accompany JAY LENO'S Thanksgiving tour to the front lines of the Persian Gulf, someone pretty high up in the Defense Department turned down his application, apparently deciding that a visit to the troops by Trudeau, who opposes going to war with Iraq, might embarrass the Bush administration. The satirist says the White House itself didn't nix his visa, but he speculates that was only because "the application didn't get that far." He adds. "They're probably going to wait until the situation heats up and then send me." And what had Trudeau planned to do in the gulf? "I was going with the USO tour. They billed me as an entertainer. I decided I could hold down one joke and go from tent to tent telling it to the soldiers."
CHER: THE WEALTH
As the title of her newest film, Mermaids, suggests, CHER, 44, is getting along swimmingly as one of Hollywood's most prominent stars. "I missed getting the lead in Total Recall. Goddamn!" jokes Cher, when asked about the paucity of good roles for women stars these days. "[Seriously] there aren't so many scripts for women as for men. That's life. We don't make as much money as men do. But I make so much money from this that I can't bellyache about it. With all due respect, I don't think I could do a Total Recall. I'd rather do Mermaids for half the money."
THE DO THAT YOU DO SO WELL
Love, at least in the world of music, is once again just a two-letter word. Back in 1981, PRINCE started it when he sang "Do Me. Baby." Then, last spring, the pop group BELL BIV DEVOE (at left) chimed in with the chart-topper "Poison," which contains the single-entendre lyric "Me and the crew used to do her." Next came their unsubtly titled sequel hit. "Do Me!" (Cole Porter, eat your heart out.) That, in turn, was followed by FREDDIE JACKSON's new album, Do Me Again. Reports that FRANK SINATRA, 75, will soon release a song called "Do Me Do Me Do" cannot be substantiated at this time.
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