Gloria Estefan brought tears to the eyes of older Cuban-Americans who gathered Saturday to hear the first live performance of songs from her new album, “90 Millas.” Amid frenzied, unsubstantiated rumors that ailing Fidel Castro had died, Estefan performed “Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre)” – Waiting (For Cuba to be Free). The title of her new album is Spanish for 90 miles – the distance from Key West to Cuba. Her performance with the Miami Sound Machine was taped Saturday at the Westin Key West Resort, just blocks from the city’s famed concrete buoy proclaiming it the southernmost point in the continental United States. The segment will air Sept. 17 on Univision’s morning news program, “Despierta America,” about a week before “90 Millas” hits stores.
Barnes & Noble announced a week ago that it wouldn’t keep copies of the new edition of O.J. Simpson’s “If I Did It” in its stores, saying the book wasn’t expected to sell well. Since then, the book has jumped into the top 50 on the superstore’s online site, Barnes & , and ranked No. 48 as of Sunday night. Simpson’s book was first scheduled for publication last November by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, with an announced printing of 400,000. But “If I Did It” was dropped in response to widespread outrage, including from relatives of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Last month, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded rights to the book to Goldman’s family to help satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.
