The Critical Critic

 

Frank Sinatra & Ella Fitzgerald: Chopped Liver? (Mid-Late 1950s)

 



"Whitney Houston with Clive Davis Circa 1970" (Mistake by ABC News February 13, 2012; pic was more likely, circa 1980)



As a high school senior, 1981



Singing with Jermaine Jackson during a rhearsal for the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in New York, July 25, 1984


Whitney Houston album cover photo, 1985



At the 1986 Grammy Awards 1986



Liberty Weekend American Concert at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, N.J., Independence Day, 1986




July 10, 1986




March 1, 1987



The album cover for Whitney, 1987





1988



The Divas: Houston with Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Michael Jackson, and an unidentified black man, possibly at a United Negro College Fund benefit, March 10, 1988



In Copenhagen, 1988




I'm Your Baby Tonight album cover photo, 1990


Album cover for All the Man I Need, 1990


Singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in 1991


"I'm Every Woman," 1992


The Bodyguard poster, 1992 (soft focus?)



"I Will Always Love You," 1992




Exhale album cover, 1995


1996


The Preacher's Wife Original Soundtrack Album CD Cover, 1996


My Love is Your Love CD cover photo, 1998



The Greatest Hits album cover, 2000









2000


2001



During Michael Jackson's 30th Anniversary Celebration Show at Madison Square Garden, September, 2001 (the caption where I found this said "September 11," but that was obviously wrong)


Love, Whitney album cover, 2001

Just Whitney album cover, 2002



Sticking her tongue out at her husband during a November 25, 2002 court hearing


With husband Bobby Brown in 2003



One Wish: The Holiday Album cover, 2003




Houston "had to delay 24 hours a concert in Barcelona because of gastroenteritis," February 2005. I never heard of anyone getting gastroenteritis from a crack pipe.



Same period in 2005, maybe even the same day, at about 41, but looking more like 60




Bathroom of a crackhead: Houston's bathroom in 2006



With late mentor Clive Davis at a Childhood Diabetes fundraiser in Beverly Hills, October 28, 2006



2007



The Ultimate Collection album cover, 2007



2009



Performing at the 37th American Music Awards in L.A., on November 22, 2009


With her cousin, Dionne Warwick, in an undated photo


I Look to You album cover, 2009




The hefty Whitney of 2010, and a more svelte earlier picture



Bloated, singing during her failed, "Nothing but Love" comeback tour in early 2010


Circa 2010


A surreally fixed pic from 2010



Attending the 2010 Keep a Child Alive's Black Ball at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom on September 30, 2010




With daughter Bobbi Kristina, udated



An undated picture that appeared in print during 2011 (It is now clear that publicity shots of Houston were so heavily retouched and airbrushed, and in some cases shot in soft focus, on top of her getting hours of hair and cosmetic work, that it gets harder and harder to figure out what she really looked like.)


Circa 2011




At a salute to industry Don David Geffen, Grammy weekend, February 12, 2011


Houston on February 9, 2012, at a pre-Grammy party for R&B



Singing a duet with Kelly Price less than 48 hours before her death, February 9, 2012