Patti LuPone Defines Diva on Morning Joe

Patti had a brief interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning. I honestly thought it got a little tense right off the bat, when they were talking about the use of the word diva. Otherwise, it was a fairly standard interview (although the discussion of what diva meant and to whom it should be applied ate up about 2 minutes of the allotted time)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#39267820


oh, and Patti will be on Leonard Lopate's show today.

http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/sep/20/

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Updated On: 9/20/10 at 11:46 AM

'Diva' isn't the word that comes to mind.

If anything the other woman was scarier.

Thanks for those, givesmevoice. I liked that bit of tension at the start. It gave LuPone a chance to confront the use of the word "diva" as a pejorative - that one person's "diva" is another person's strong woman - and she put the guys right in their place. She took control of the interview then and there. I truly do believe she gets a bad rap for being a professional and vocal about what she wants.