Incognito at Mar-a-Lago

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Apr 12, 2000 Source: Palm Beach Interactive Submitted By: Sakhrani Fans left out of Howie D's plans By Thom Smith Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Lucky for the Mar-a-Lago Club that word didn't get out last week: The place could have been mobbed and Palm Beach probably would have tried to close it down. Why? Howie D was there. As in Howie D of the Backstreet Boys, the hottest boy group on the planet. If teenage girls had learned of his presence April 2, they would have been scaling the walls, jamming South Ocean with cars and making amphibious landings along the sea wall. They hope to play for pope The night before at the Archdiocese of Miami's Youth Music Fest in the Miami Beach Convention Center, screaming girls rushed the stage when Howie joined sister Polly Anna to perform Fly to Heaven. Howie and Polly Anna - their last name is Dorough - wrote and recorded the song for a new Millennium Jubilee CD for the Vatican. They hope to perform it live this summer for Pope John Paul II. At Mar-a-Lago, Tiffany Trump, who was visiting daddy, was impressed, but otherwise the situation was a bit more sedate than that in Miami Beach. The Doroughs were there at the invitation of another teenager, Siobhan McNamara of Palm Beach. They were discussing the possibilities for a Palm Beach benefit starring the Backstreet Boys in memory of the Doroughs' sister, Caroline Cochrane. She died in 1998 from lupus. The Doroughs have known Siobhan going back to 1994, when her dad, Jim McNamara, was producing the short-lived TV show The Newz at Universal Studios near Orlando. The Backstreet Boys' manager was his receptionist and its publicist was a production assistant. After all, it's a small world. Comment on this item. Next Item: AJ to team with Limp Bizkit? Prev Item: Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera To Receive World Music Awards