DIANA ROSS

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:03pm

Any other fans of the Diva out there? Lets see if we can get a Ms Ross thread going. Has anyone ever seen her perform live? i finally did this last september. She was fierce.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:04pm

Dame, you should take that picture down. You should know she doesn't like fans to look directly at her.

[Glebb]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:05pm

Saw her live at the MET circa 1983.
God I used to love her!
Baby It's Me (the whole lot) is still my favorite recording.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:08pm

Mattthat is very funny. I actually have a friend who used to work as a tour guide at radio City years ago. And he experienced first hand the vicious side of the diva. He was talkingloudly in the hallway and she had him removed. ( I swear; true story). But I still love her. I love her music and the history of the motown years. And she really puts in a amazing show.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:10pm

My best friend knows someone that works in the kitchen at a country club in Florida where she was performing. He went to go see her and was in the kitchen when Ross' people came in and said everyone must bow their heads when she entered (she entered through the kitchen so she wouldn't be seen) and NOBODY MAY MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH HER.

He kept his head up and stared the bitch down.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:13pm

Oh girl. You are too much. I saw her perform at the Pantages a few months ago. No one sat for 3 hours. She sang non stop. from one song to the other. Only time she interupted was for a fierce wardrobe change. She did 5 of those. The audience loved it.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:15pm

I'm sure they did. Were they allowed to look at her than, or did she tack on an extra "appearance fee" to each ticket for the privelage? (Hearing her and LOOKING at her are two completely different things and I would hope she charged twice for them)

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:17pm

Oh Isee. now you are being mean? I will scare your meaness away with beauty.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:18pm

She is a gorgeous woman, Dame. There's no denying that.

[morosco]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:21pm

Years ago she played the venue I work at. We still lovingly refer to her only as "The Deranged B*tch".

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:22pm

What venue was that Morosco?

[morosco]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:27pm

"What venue was that Morosco?"

Sorry Dame...too much information.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:28pm

i understand.

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 11:08pm

I was very lucky to meet her years ago in Las Vegas....She was with Lola Falana.....They were both devine!!!!

[Falsettoland]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 11:47pm

Is it wrong that I still feel bias against her because of the things Mary Wilson wrote about her in "Dreamgirl"?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 2:58am

Yes iit is. Mary Wilson was probably very bitter. i don't know what credence I put in that book.

[Falsettoland]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:34am

I would definitely read it all with a grain of salt. There's a lot of "fact" presented in a way which makes Miss Ross look like a biotch and leaves Mary conveniently smelling like a rose.
But it's good even if as nothing other than gossip.

Updated On: 4/15/05 at 03:34 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 9:14am

how can you dismiss mary wilson's autobiography about her life as a supreme as being just gossip? it was her life, she lived it. she was there, you weren't. none of us were for that matter. some of it must have some validity to it.

on the other hand i do love ross' music. she's one of my mother's favorite singers. i grew up with her music.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 12:44pm

I am not dismissing it. I actuall own it and loved reading it. But ishe is giving her point of view. And she was really bitter when she wrote that ( I rember her inthe talk shows). Again; I would take it all with a grain of salt.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 12:56pm

EVERY celebrity memoir must be taken with a grain of salt--especially Diana's memoir SECRETS OF A SPARROW, which was almost entirely fiction!--but Mary Wilson's had the ring of truth.

I have worshipped Diana Ross (since before most of you were born), but she ain't no saint.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 1:01pm

And no one is saying she is a saint. But I have read both books. Both of them. Dianas is too glossy. But Marys is more readable but still very one sided and bitter.

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 2:55pm

Maybe Wilson has just cause for her bitterness? People don't become bitter "just because"...

Anyway I have more important things to worry about....

'Quise is off this thread so he can listen to some "Love Hangover"...

[DAME]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:30pm

Playing that same thing right now.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:30pm

Thats MS. Ross to you!!!!

[DAME]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:32pm

And to you too