With a Song in Her Heart and a Lot on Her Mind

摘要

She's been called a diva-and worse. But the Whitney Houston who sits down for an interview in a New York City hotel suite seems smart, sassy and real. (OK, so she's got a massive diamond ring and a posse of five sistergirls attending to her every need.) Houston, who's married to singer Bobby Brown, is awaiting her new movie and her second child. In Penny Marshall's cozy holiday film "The Preacher's Wife," she plays a lonely spouse and choir leader named Julia Biggs who gets divine intervention from an angelic Denzel Washington. Houston spoke with Newsweek's Allison Samuels about her life in—and out of—pictures.