My Trip Down the Pink Carpet by Leslie Jordan

Author:Leslie Jordan [Jordan, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Humor, General
ISBN: 9781416955559
Google: KS-hVp9mXqYC
Amazon: 1439153485
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2008-06-03T07:00:00+00:00

Diva Crush

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

MISS FAYE Dunaway paid me the best compliment I have ever received. I was hired to do a few episodes of It Had to Be You, a situation comedy she was starring in with dear, sweet, beautiful Robert Urich, who later tragically died of cancer. What a crush I had on Robert Urich! But we’ve been down that road before.

I was in awe of Faye Dunaway. I remember sitting alone in a darkened movie theatre in the throes of teenage angst, staring at her amazing cheekbones in Bonnie and Clyde (but lusting after Warren Beatty, of course). She was a legend.

The entire week of rehearsals she had been somewhat aloof, as she is very serious about her work and had many reservations about working in situation comedy. She wasn’t available for chitchat, and any encounters up to that point had been strictly business. She had also been dressed very casually all week, with her hair pulled back and very little makeup. But after almost four hours in the makeup trailer, she paraded out in all her glory.

Faye Fucking Dunaway! She was bigger than life! And that is how a diva should be. Finally, we sat face-to-face in the greenroom, waiting to take our places onstage. Out of the blue, she leaned in and whispered in that smoky voice, “You remind me a lot of my dear friend Tennessee Williams.”

I almost fell on the floor.

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