But it's true. I have always thought the "Gwen Verdon missed her own mother's funeral because the show must go on" is just idiotic bullcrap. I think it's as stupid as macho athletes "sucking it up" and limping off the field to applause at a football game. Stay down and let them get out a stretcher.
I prefer Judy Garland, so in love with the audience on the first night of a two night run on a tour she just keeps singing until she's completely drained, so drained she has nothing left for the next night so she goes out onstage and fakes the death of a friend and tells the audience she's too distraught to perform and they understand, right? THAT'S showbiz.
"I'm indestructible" is not showbiz. It's superhero movie.
I just realized that one of the things that Bowie did as he aged was he moved away from the outlandish characters and moved more to a performance as himself as Regular Joe. Or as close as he could get. Granted, this too was a character but it was more human and relatable.
Watching her take that terrible spill and get up and groan through the rest of her number reminded me nothing more of Reagan walking into his car after having been shot and nobody in the car even knew he'd been hit. But I guess Madonna and vulnerability will never be on the menu, just Madonna a bravado.
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Updated On: 2/26/15 at 12:59 AM