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"Backstreet Boy to Stay Evil"

WB didnt just save Roswell when it renewed the teen alien show, but also Howie Dorough's burgeoning acting career. Now that the show has another season, the Backstreet Boys' season-finale appearance as an evil alien will be a recurring role, say his sisters, singer Pollyanna Dorough and Angelia Hering, vice president of the Howie D. Fanclub.

"But He'll Stay in the Band." Pollyanna says.

The sisters also said that Dorough IS NOT GOING SOLO, but is planning several one-man shows starting in September to raise money for lupus research. Pollyanna plans to open for Dorough, starting this fall, when he sings in English and Spanish at fund-raisers in Miami, Puerto Rico and South America.

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From AJ's dad point of view, juss don' know if this is true...

Well it seems I can no longer standby and not speak out. After the Ultrasound MTV interview, I have gotten well over 1000 hate e-mails and even a few death threats. So I guess it's time to publish my side of the "Alex's DAD Story". What follows is an open letter to BSB fans (and Alex, if he wants to read it) around the world, setting straight the facts around my not being in Alex's life.

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Dear BSB Fans,

An awful lot of you seem to think that I am some sort of gold digging dead beat dad, which could not be farther from the truth. So here is the true story, even Alex does not know it, since we have never sat down and talked about any of this.

Denise and I divorced when Alex was 4 and I was granted visitation rights by the court. All went well for a number of years, until I moved to Colorado Springs, CO in July of 1984, for my job. I got to see Alex in the end of 1984, visiting him at his Uncle Bill's house in Boca Raton, FL. Alex and I spoke almost every weekend on the phone right up to the end of June 1985. I had made plans for my 1month visitation, by having Alex come to Colorado Springs for the month of July 1985. At the last minute, Denise said no, Alex was to busy to come out. A 7-year-old is too busy to come and spent time with his father, go figure. So with court order in hand, I went to Boynton Beach, FL on the appointed day I was to pick him up and guess what ?? no one home. Returning home without Alex, I did what I now know was a huge mistake. I cut off all contact with Denise and Alex for about 6 months.

In Jan 1986, I moved to Hong Kong, to work and over the next almost 5 years, sent letters and packages to Alex for holidays, birthday's etc. And guess what ??? I never heard a word from Alex or Denise. At the end of 1990, I returned back to Florida and went to Boynton Beach, only to find they had moved. Having no address, I spent the next few months trying to find them. In Jan of 1991, I found out they where living in Fern Park, FL, just north of Orlando. I went to the Condo, only to be told by some guy that answered the door, that they where not at home. Now, Alex says the last time he saw me was when he was around 12 years old, well I guess they where home after all. I left my business card and home phone number and aked that either Denise or Alex call me. Guess what ??? No callā€¦. I then had to leave town for about a month on a business trip and training. On my return, I went back to the Fern Park Condo, only to find a For Sale sign and no one home. Now in Florida the court ! will not give the father, the ex's address, so I again had no idea where they where. So I made my second huge mistake, I gave up trying to find them.

By the way, to set the record straight, I paid my child support payments out of court ordered payroll deduction all this time, so much for the dead beat dad stuff.

In 1995, I don't remember when, there was an article in the Orlando Sentinel about the Backstreet Boys. After finding the telephone number for Transcontinental Records, I tried about 10 times to contact Denise or Alex thou them. In the end, I was told not to call back again, no one wanted to talk with me and the police would be called if I called back one more time. Well guess what, you don't have to tell me more than once, I get the message,go away.

Now as me move to the next phase of this story, the gold digging part. In Aug of 1996 I had a nock on the door, I first thought, oh one of Parisa's boyfriends (Parisa is Alex's stepsister) that does not know she has left for thno one ever gave me his address. Third, I could care less about his money, I have my own money. I don't need or want his, I would not give Denise the satisfaction of saying I told you so. I know I am my own man.

So, there you go, the truth about the "Alex's DAD Story", very much different than what you have read or heard isn't it. Alex never knew the truth and I guess just sticks to the same old untrue story.

Peace Always,

Bob McLean

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Article from: Glenda@backstreetboys.com

I’ve been a BSB fan since 1996 and until now all I can say is that they are the best boy band alive! I’ve been watching the old interviews I’ve recorded and compared it to the new ones and all I can say is that they never changed, personality wise. They might have matured but they are the same BSB since I have known them. They are still humble, modest, down to earth, funny, crazy, love their fans, willing to give it all to their fans, enjoy what they are doing, and most of all they treat each other as brothers. They are the only boy band that I like, honestly. I’ve tried liking Five, N Sync and 98 degrees, but they didn’t appeal to me. People have said that they will not last long like the NKOTB, but that’s what they have been saying since 1996! But, we still know them and they are still huge! BSB has never really changed. They are still the same BSB who are huge in Europe since 1995. Since BSB became big here in the US and then came other acts like N Sync and 98 Degrees, they have been continuously compared to only one group, N Sync. They are saying that N Sync is better than BSB or vice versa. Well, honestly, as a BSB fan I got really upset and depress because how could these people not see that BSB is the best! So, like any typical BSB fan or N Sync fan would do, I said really mean stuff about N Sync, but really that didn’t do anything. I’ve also tried to think that the two bands are doing their own thing, however, somehow they are alike! Thus, I tried to watch N Sync specials and interviews and compared it to BSB and try to figure out why I think BSB is the best boy band. Here’s what I’ve observed. I’ve been to two BSB concerts and I’ve watched most of their performances on TV and they are really fun! They make you wanna get up and dance and you feel like you are with them performing. There’s so much energy! The boys are really giving it all. Also, they are so funny onstage. There is Nick falling down, Howie doing his own thing, B rok being crazy, AJ joking around and Kev doing his smooth moves. The boys always perform live and they always smile and be crazy onstage even if they are really tired, but still the energy is still pumping and they are rocking the house down! In addition, they dance so good, so smooth, and nobody’s overdoing the dance steps. Ok, have u seen Backstreet Boys concert special on Showtime and Fox family? That’s pretty much what I’m trying to describe here. Did you see how crazy and funny and fun they are?! That’s the BSB even b4. Just recently, I saw the N Sync concert special, and I don’t want to compare but I really have to. They have energy, right, but there’s something’s missing that make you really say, ok, they are not BSB. I don’t know but they seem tired and like they are not having fun. Yea, make the audience dance and be crazy because of their upbeat songs but still, there’s something missing, it’s like it’s not enough. And most of the time they don’t sing live, the ones who are singing live are mostly JC and Justin and when Justin sings live his voice kindda sounds ugly sometimes. Also, when they are dancing they are rough and sometimes JC’s over doing the dance steps and the rest are not doing their best. I’m not dissing N Sync or whatever, that’s just what I’ve observed. Now, let’s go to interviews. When BSB are interviewed, they are honest, they are trying to answer every question honestly but at the same time try not to give every details. Also, they are so humble, all their answers are so modest! Oh, and they are so funny when they are interviewed just like the one when they were interviewed by Madison on the red carpet before the Men Strike Back concert, they are so funny! Madison asked them about the concert, like how they feel and Howie said something like “Stokes” ---something like that—sorry I don’t know what that means nor how u spell it—and AJ said it in British accent and Nick was like “what the heck was that?!” and Brok and Kev’s faces were like –ok…. U guys are weird… LOL. On the other hand, I saw this N Sync interview and yes they are being crazy and funny but they sound arrogant in some way especially Justin and how they answer questions, well, they are not humble. I’m sorry if I offended anyone, but this is just my opinion. Well, I guess you see my point now, huh? I apologize if I hurt anybody but please respect my opinion because I respect yours. I just want to voice out what I think about the two groups and how proud I am to be a BSB fan. If you want to comment, go ahead, but no cursing. I really do think the two groups are good in different ways and are best in different ways it really depends on how you judge them, I basically judge them through their talents, personality, and most especially music. Now, that N Sync transferred to Jive, they sound like BSB!

-------------------- Transcript of the AJ and Howie Interview at TMF Holland

Source: The Music Factory (TMF) Holland

I got this from:Backstreet.net

Interview with AJ and Howie in Koln, Germany. With VJ Tooske, from TMF (The Netherlands)

Tooske: AJ and Howie welcome. Thanks for being on our show today.

Howard and AJ: Thank you!

Tooske: Where are the rest of the guys?

AJ: They are in my pocket.....I have Nick in my pocket.....no.....they are actually at home.....uhmmmmm......a couple of guys had...uhmmmm......some personal things to take care of...and they are also still writing and producing stuff...they are gonna meet up with us in the following week in the UK and were gonna finish writing some more stuff for the new album.

Tooske: Are they preparing for their weddings?

Howard: Uhmmmm, yeah a couple of them are.....

Tooske: A couple of them are????

AJ: There is only two of them..... Tooske: Exactly.....Those two are.....Which one of you is going to be the next to be married????

AJ: JOHN!!!!!

Tooske: John????

Howard: You mean Johnny No Name????

AJ: No, no, not Johhny No Name.....no, no....I don't know....we are not looking to even get married any time soon.

Howard: No, nope.

AJ: We have a whole new album to work on....and we got things to do.

Tooske: What do you think the influence of their marriages might be on the future of the Backstreet Boys....do you think they wanna be home more?

AJ: No

Howard: They might be......

AJ: No, they have their wives out with them....wherever the go.....they have their fiancees now...they have them whereever they go pretty much. Howard: Yeah....I think it's gonna be the same....it's not that they just met those girls....

Tooske: They just added the ring

Howard: Yeah, they got the ring

(AJ: There doesn't change much.)

Tooske: The last time we talked was right for the major tour.....right for the introduction actually of the Millennium album.....how do you look back at that?

AJ: I can't remember.....I can't remember that far back

Tooske: Picture Amsterdam, June 5th......

AJ: Oh, now you are getting specific....

Tooske: In the Arena

AJ: Oh yes...

Howard: Remember with the haringfish and all that stuff???

Tooske: And you loved it, didn't you?

AJ: Not at all!!!!

Howard: I didn't

Tooske: Raw fish....

AJ: It was an experience...defenitely.....I mean the crowd....ESPECIALLY in Holland was just insane!!!

Howard: Yeah, that was our biggest European concert.

AJ: 65,000 or 70,000 people.....it was SICK!!!

Tooske: I was amazed that....uhhmmmm....every time Nick tried to....I was there....somewhere way way in the back....every time Nick started singing....the crowd would be louder than Nick.

Howard: OH really???

Tooske: Did you notice???

Howard and AJ: NO!......we had ear monitors so we didn't really know......

Tooske: Oh sorry.

AJ: We didn't even hear Nick, cause we don't even wanna hear Nick

Howard: Exactly!....we don't wanna hear the fans screaming for him.

Tooske: But how did the tour go? The early days of the tour in The Netherlands, and then you had a whole way to go.

AJ: The tour went splendid, it went really well....I mean it was long...the last week was the longest actually...and we ended the actual tour ended in Toronto.....in the second week of March??? Remember????

Howard: Yeah.

AJ: Somewhere in March.....yeah...and it was just....a lot of fun, it was just a long tour.

Howard: Yeah!!! It was one leg in Europe and two legs in America.

Tooske: What is a leg?

Howard: A leg???

AJ: Right here, you got this (pointing at his leg...LMAO)

Tooske: I know that leg......I think he is talking about a different leg.

Howard: A leg is like a certain timespan.....2 months a month

AJ: 2 months 3 months....a certain area...we did Europe for like 3 months...we did the US for 3 months and then we came back to the US again and did it for 2 months.

Tooske: Is it something....I don't know, cause I've never done a worldtour....is it that at....when it starts you think oh this is gonna be incredible and at the end oh I want this to be over???

Howard: You know actually for me....when I start it it seems like wow it's gonna be a long time...but then it starts to go kind of quickly then and at the middle it starts dragging a bit....

AJ: YEAH!!! (with a deep voice)

Howard: And at the very end it's WOW were did it all go?

Tooske: Uhuh.

AJ: The first month is like....???.....making sure everything is right....the middle is like dragging ass...and by the time you get to the end....it starts to pick up speed but then like I said the last week of the tour felt like a year.....just cause, we were all waiting to get to the end of the tour, to have some time off, take a breather from it, you know, but.....we're gonna put together a true worldtour for this next album, which means....

Tooske: You already planned the next one, huh?

Howard: Yup.

AJ: Once we finished the album and we figured out what this team will be and what the title of the album will be and.....you know Millennium was more that futuristic type of vibes.....and find a theme for this album and then....

Tooske: And when do you think this one will be ready?

Howard: We'll probably be done in a quarter here

AJ: Probably 2001 or 2002.

Howard: Maybe...

AJ: Ok....no, we'll hope fully be done soon.

Howard: Probably the end of August hopefully.

AJ: Yeah.

Tooske: Who are you making it with?

Howard: Actually the five of us went down to the Bahamas.....and did some writing...

Tooske: You just had to go down to the Bahamas to write, huh

Howard and AJ: That's right.

Tooske: You didn't pick Iceland you picked the Bahamas.

Howard: It's in our contracts.

AJ: We had to go, where it's sunny and beachy and beautful women.....that's where we had to go.

Tooske: It's good for inspiration?

AJ and Howard: YES!!!

Howard: It's good to concentrate.

Tooske: So we'll get a whole album about beautiful women in the sunshine....that's why we have this setting here too.

Howard: Everything now around us is in the Bahama style....it keeps us

AJ: Pom pom pom

Tooske: Is it gonna be Max Martin and his people again?

Howard: Yeah, we're actually gonna go to Sweden....

AJ: 2 weeks.

Howard: in 2 weeks

Tooske: Are you at all worried that...his sound is such a big thing now...there are sooo many artists that use him to create a sound for them....and you might sound like a whole bunch of other people?

Howard: Everybody sounds like us.

Tooske: But even if that's true a lot of people sound the same way.

Howard: Us were the first and that's all that is.

AJ: It's defenitely all good......I mean I think....whenever we work with Max we always seem to... some of the songs are very similair....like I WANT IT THAT WAY was the second coming of QUIT PLAYING GAMES....AS LONG AS YOU LOVE ME and SHOW ME THE MEANING and all these songs...all these accoustic songs or what not....and then you have DON'T WANT YOU BACK kind of threw a wrench at everything it was kinda different....you know.....

Tooske: Yeah

AJ: And LARGER THAN LIFE had the rock....DON'T WANT YOU BACK was more like the hiphop.....we had the Latin song SPANISH EYES....we kinda threw a couple songs in on the album that kinda changed our sound...just a little bit....but not drastic.

Tooske: That haven't been singles...YET.

AJ: I know...which really SUCKED, cause I wanted DON'T WANT YOU BACK to be the last single...

Tooske: Me too, me too....is it going to be a single?

Howard: Nope....

Tooske: What's gonna be the next single?

Howard and AJ: I'LL BE THE ONE.

Tooske: I'LL BE THE ONE....why?

AJ: It was actually...I have been saying that it was a group idea, but actually it was my idea....

Tooske: So modest, huh.

Howard: Hey, hey now, common....give a little credit to the rest of us alright?

Tooske: Yeah alright.

[you should have heard the way Howard sounded and AJ looked when he said that.....oooooppppsssss.....LOL]

AJ: I brought......since, no....well, actually it was me and Howie's....since the rest of the guys are not here.....I brought a suggestion up to the guys a while back when we were up on the US tour...and I thought it would be kinda cool if you would let our friends pick the next single.....all of us sat and brainstormed.....and we picked 3 songs...and then we were gonna....Brian was like why don't we shoot 3 videos......and show the fans and let them pick....and we were......we don't have time to do 3 videos dude....so we chose DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU KNOW, DON'T WNAT YOU BACK and THE ONE....and DON'T WANT YOU BACK lost by one point.

Tooske: So you wanted that single, but didn't have it?

AJ: No....it would have been a good song.

Howard: See you messed yourself over....see with this brilliant idea it all backfired on you....

AJ: It was Nick's fault....it wasn't my fault. (stop guys!!!! No, need to fight, huh :-) )

Tooske: It was nobodies fault, butbutbutbut...we wanna know about the video....is it done?

Howard: Yes, it's done.

Tooske: What does it look like?

Howard: It's actually a compilation of the whole last year...all of our touring....you actually see some touring from Europe.

Tooske: Ohhhhhhh, N'sync has a video with that.

AJ and Howard: We just heard that, yeah.

Howard; But that's ok.....

AJ: Ours is better...and it was our idea.

Tooske: Is it that style?

AJ: Yeah, but I mean, we.....we also do a lot of the behind the scene stuff....just us messin around......doing stupid stuff.....riding the bus...playing basketball.....uhmmm.....meeting some of the sick children that we have on our shows from MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION....meet some of the kids that have cancer...or whatever.

Howard: We have shots like the Rolling Stone photo-shoot....

AJ: With our pants on the floor.

Howard: And MTV.

Tooske: Oh really?

AJ: We dropped our pants for the cover

Howard: Did you see that?

Tooske: Yeah, I saw that.....so when can we expect you back in The Netherlands?

AJ: As soon as we finished the new album.

Tooske: Because you guys.....we missed you at this years TMF Awards.

Howard: I know...we were, uhhhhh... (she is getting their award)

AJ: Ahhhh, does it still light up?

Tooske: No, it doesn't.....

AJ: Ahhhh man(this was a disappointing ahhhh)

Tooske: It doesn't need to.

AJ: I know...

Tooske: We missed you a lot and you were nominated for BEST LIVE ACT...cause everybody was crazy about your concert in June.....so you won

Howard: Oh, thank you....we wanted to come here, but it was at the exact same time that one of our personal secretaries was getting married....in Miami....so

Tooske: Alright, so a whole country suffered for one wedding?

Howard: Yeah, y'all should be very mad with her.

AJ: Yeah, you should be very mad with Nicole not us.

Howard: Give her number.

Tooske: So you promiss at least try to be there whenever there might be another.....cause if you never show up people might stop giving it to you.

AJ: Yeah.

Howard and AJ: we don't want that.

Tooske: Who wants it?

AJ: Me!!!!

Howard: I'll take it.

AJ: No, no.

Tooske: Don't drop it, don't break it....alright let me say goodbye.

[Ok that's it from my side of the Atlantic...yeah that took me quite a while....hope you guys enjoy it!!! :-)]

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Kevin article from: People.com

It’s time to separate the man from the boys - Kevin Richardson from worldwide pop phenoms the Backstreet Boys, that is. Sure, bandmates Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell each have their cadre of screaming teenage girls. Those fans scooped up all the tickets to the Boys’ current 39-city tour in one day and made their latest multiplatinum album, Millenium, the fastest-selling record of all time. But with his laser-bright green eyes and chiseled chin, Richardson, 28 - deemed the group’s "most likely future male model” by The New York Times – is the one providing a guilty pleasure for Mom too. “he has a very strong presence; his whole aura is sexy,” says the quintet’s fashion stylist Rachel Rosenzweig. Yet the 6’1” former captain of Lexington, Kentucky’s Estill County High School football team calls himself “pretty quiet. I guess I’m more the ‘internal’ type than the other guys.” And, according to Dorough, “the most humble and modest guy I know.” Still, immodest fans lob lingerie during concerts, not caring that Richardson found his own sweetie (a dancer he declines to name) seven years ago at Disneyland, where he began his showbiz career as a Ninja Turtle. “She walked into the cafeteria, and it was like someone turned a light on,” he says. As to his own incandescence, Richardson demurs. “Sexiness isn’t something that’s put on,” he says. “It just naturally comes out of you.” And it’s just as natural to notice.