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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 24 april 2019
Prince memoir 'The Beautiful Ones' coming out in the fall

By HILLEL ITALIE Rain.'" Piepenbring's intro-
Associated Press duction will touch upon
NEW YORK (AP) — The Prince's final days, "a time
memoir Prince was working when Prince was thinking
on at the time of his death deeply about how to re-
is coming out Oct. 29. veal more of himself and
Random House confirmed his ideas to the world, while
Monday to The Associated retaining the mystery and
Press that "The Beautiful mystique he'd so carefully
Ones" will combine a Prince cultivated." Piepenbring,
unfinished manuscript with whom Prince had called
rare photos, scrapbooks "my brother Dan" and "not
and lyrics. First announced a yes man at all," is a Paris
just weeks before his 2016 Review advisory editor who
death, the 288-page book also contributes to The New
will include an introduction Yorker.
by Dan Piepenbring, whom Prince died three years
Prince had chosen as a ago, on April 21, from an
collaborator. The memoir accidental overdose of
is an exclusive partnership fentanyl at the age of 57.
with the Prince Estate. During a Manhattan night-
"'The Beautiful Ones' is the club appearance in March
deeply personal account 2016, he told the audience
of how Prince Rogers Nel- In this Nov. 22, 2015, file photo, Prince presents the award for favorite album - Soul/R&B at the that "The good people
son became the Prince we American Music Awards in Los Angeles. of Random House have
know: the real-time story of Associated made me an offer that
a kid absorbing the world I can't refuse." He prom-
around him and creating a "The book will span from personal photos, and the through deeply revealing, ised the book would start
persona, an artistic vision, Prince's childhood to his original handwritten lyric never-before-shared im- with his "first memory" and
and a life, before the hits early years as a musician sheets for many of his most ages and memories and "hopefully" continue to his
and the fame that would to the cusp of international iconic songs, which he kept culminates with his origi- rain-drenched Super Bowl
come to define him," Ran- stardom, using Prince's own at Paisley Park. The book nal handwritten treatment halftime performance in
dom House announced. writings, a scrapbook of his depicts Prince's evolution for his masterwork, 'Purple 2007.q

'Young and the Restless' honors Kristoff St. John, his work

By LYNN ELBER longtime friend and co-star
Associated Press in "Roots: The Next Genera-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As tions," appears as the rever-
"The Young and the Rest- end at Neil's funeral.
less" head writer Josh A special airing April 29
Griffith screened the epi- (12:30 p.m. EDT) will pay
sode in which Neil Winters' tribute to St. John and his
family learns of his death, nearly 28-year tenure on
the tears began to flow. "Y&R" with clips from the
Viewers might brace for a show and current and for-
similar reaction when the mer cast member sharing
CBS daytime serial says memories of him, includ-
farewell to Neil and to Krist- ing Victoria Rowell, who
off St. John, the actor who played Neil's wife Drucilla
played the character for for a number of years.
nearly three decades. St. It was six years ago that the
John, who died at age 52 serial honored another be-
in February of heart dis- loved star, Jeanne Cooper,
ease, helped cement the who died at 84 in 2013 after
prominence of major Afri- playing Katherine Chancel-
can-American characters lor for nearly 40 years. "Y&R"
in the traditionally white owed the same to St. John,
soap opera world. said Griffith, co-executive
During a four-episode story producer of the serial.
arc airing Tuesday through This image released by CBS shows Kristoff St. John who portrays Neil Winters on the CBS series "The "We had to, for his sake, for
Friday, Neil's friends and Young and the Restless." his legacy. He was so im-
family gather in fictional Associated Press portant to the show, so im-
Genoa City to remember portant to daytime televi-
the businessman whose full foundly emotional journey goes from being a passing as "Y&R" for two episodes sion," he said. "To television,
life included complicated over those four days, and of him to a celebration of as Malcolm Winters, Neil's period."
relationships and a battle have lots of boxes of Kleen- his life." brother. Other returning The actor didn't trumpet
with alcoholism. ex right by," Griffith said. Shemar Moore, star of CBS' alumni include Christel his part in advancing on-
People need "to prepare "But in the end, as we knew prime-time series "S.W.A.T.," Khalil and Eileen Davidson, screen inclusivity, even if
themselves for a very pro- that Kristoff would want it, it returns to what fans know while Stan Shaw, St. John's others did.q