BEING SUPREME.

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BEING SUPREME: With ``Dreamgirls'' having its dream run of attention as an Oscar front runner, Diana Ross, on whose '60s group the Supremes the movie was loosely based, is re-emerging with a new studio album.

The inspiration for the songs that will be featured on the album is said to be ``love.'' Though it was everything but ``love'' among group members toward the end of the Supremes dynasty, when Ross was pushed to the forefront as the lead singer and star of the group, Ross insists, ``We must remember love in the past, nurture it in the present and dream of it in the future.''

On the upcoming ``I Love You'' -- Ross' first studio album since 1999 -- she works with many of the producers who made some of her greatest hits and is providing fans with a visual experience with a deluxe CD/DVD package that will be released on Jan. 16.

As for a Supremes reunion, Mary Wilson, one of the original members, recently told Extra TV that that would happen only if Ross was willing. Florence Ballard, the other original member, died in 1996 and was replaced by Cindy Birdsong in 1997. No word on Ross' end, but maybe all these loving feelings will warm the soul-singing diva's heart enough to ``Reach Out'' and make some Supremes fans' dreams come true.

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