Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston has filed for divorce from husband B

[Roon]

Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston has filed for divorce from husband Bobby Brown, her publicist tells The Associated Press.

Breaking on http://www.cnn.com/

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Hey, Osama!

She's available!

[LisaM]

7. Darn, you beat me to it!

Maybe she can lure him out.

[shain from kane]

8. Put her on a shuttle bus or plane and continue to move her from

one city to another. Osama wouldn't nuke the one he loves, and she ain't no virgin. He can only possess the one he loves on earth. Come out of your cave, Osama. It's Groundhog's Day, and you can be Whitney's shadow.

[Zavulon]

19. My first thought, too (NT)

[Horse with no Name]

2. It's about damn time

Whitney Houston was arguably one of the most talented musicians of our time.
For some reason, she allowed BB to drag her down a path that not only ruined her career, but her health as well.

[LynneSin]

5. Absolutely

She should have married Randall Cunningham when she had the chance!

[shain from kane]

9. He looks a lot healthier than her. He survived, she's about dead. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. "One of the most talented musicians of our time"?

:puke:

She had good pipes (for singing pop dreck, anyway) but she ain't no musician, and certainly not up there with Zappa, Penderecki, Stockhausen, Monk, Reich, Cage, Glass, Ian Anderson, and so forth.

In terms of, say, the third tier of talent, she's up at the top - or at least, she was.

[Horse with no Name]

16. She is one of a very small number

(I think the number is 3 or 4) than can hit the middle "C".
I'd argue that it is all just a matter of music taste--personally, I don't care for Zappa so he wouldn't even be on my long list, let alone my short list.:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. I'm thinking you mean a high "C", but even that isn't as high

as a coloratura soprano opera singers go. The Queen of the Night (in Die Zauberflote) hits a high f. Pitches above the high c, which is the first c above the staff in the treble clef, are called the "Whistle Range".

I would imagine Whitney can go above the high c (or at least could, before the drugs). Wikipedia lists popular singers Mariah Carey, Minnie Riperton, Shanice, Christina Aguilera and Debelah Morgan as examples of popular singers who can hit that range; I would be very surprised if Whitney was not able to join their ranks: she did have a good set of pipes. Not very interesting ones, and she sadly applied them to an entire catalogue of lackluster, uninteresting music, thus depriving the world and human history of a catalogue of stuff that would have had longevity and relevance for decades if not centuries to come, but she did have good pipes.

[goclark]

23. She may have her personal problems but she could SING

like a bird!

I would put her right up there with the greatests!

Bless her and may she return to her previously STAR quality.

[951-Riverside]

22. Hopefully she will become an inspiration for other abused women

I'm elated to see her finally escape from that savage Bobby Brown.

[raccoon]

3. Who cares? nt

[951-Riverside]

21. Me. n/t

[KingFlorez]

4. Good

It sure took long enough

[zonkers]

6. Best thing that ever happened to both of them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Gonna cost Bobby a hundred thou a month just in cocaine alimony.

[Darth_Kitten]

12. but don't these two deserve each other?

Houston had so much talent yet she blew it.

No sympathy here.

[AngryAmish]

13. NOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were so happy together, smoking rocks.

[kwassa]

14. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Tell me it isn't sooooooo!!!!!!

I don't know what she saw in that triflin' man in the first place ...

but that was her perogative.

I wonder if she has totally destroyed her health. Hope she makes it back.

[LostInAnomie]

15. Awww Hell to the No!

Who's gonna be there to hold Bobby's teaspoon over the lighter now?

[Zavulon]

18. (Sorry, blank, in wrong place, delete)

[951-Riverside]

20. Geee you didnt shove the Anna Nicole stories in the Lounge