Article: Spice Girls: hot as they wannabe

Spice Girls promo appearance 5 p.m. Tuesday Planet Hollywood, 633 N. Wells For more info, call (312) 266-7827 I ran into an English colleague last winter who, on condition that I not name her or quote her directly, regaled me with tales of being hired by the Spice Girls' managers several years earlier to teach the then-fledgling group "how to handle the press."

This level of calculation should surprise no one: It's common knowledge that the five Spices were recruited in London in 1994 through a newspaper ad ("Wanted: streetwise, outgoing, ambitious singers") and were chosen from some 400 contenders to fill roles that had been pre-determined by their original managers, Chris and Bob ...

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