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I have scars, she thought. “And why are we called ‘bitches’ or ‘hard to work’ when we just ask what we need? That infuriates her, she said, because it’s the men who use these labels.
“Apparently I was persona non grata in California after ‘Evita’, because everyone heard that I was difficult in New York. It’s like, ‘Wait a minute, you wanna know why I was picky?’ No, it’s just, ‘You were difficult so you’re on the Too Short Life List.’ I say this for every woman and man that goes through it. Your talent will come out. Your talent will carry you, if you stick to it and honor your talent.
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In the wake of #MeToo, she noted, the abusive bosses are hanging on.
“There are no more bad guys in the world,” she said with a smirk. But her dark humor is still intact, so she added that, for her show, “We had to go through two days of sensitivity training. I wanted to kill myself.
She played Norma Desmond on “Sunset Boulevard” in London, before he hit Broadway. In 1994, when Andrew Lloyd Webber fired her and replaced her with Glenn Close, she wrote in her memoir: “I practiced batting in my dressing room with a lamppost. I threw away everything in sight – mirrors, wig stands, makeup, wardrobe, furniture, everything. Then I took the lamp out of the second story window.
She sued him and used the million dollars she won to build a swimming pool at her Connecticut home, now called the Andrew Lloyd Webber Memorial Pool.
“The only thing we haven’t done is the police drawing at the bottom of the pool,†she said, laughing.
After decades of trading insults, she simply says that Mr. Lloyd Webber is “a sad sack”. His irritation with Mrs. Close is still simmering. And then there’s Madonna: in 2017, she told Andy Cohen, “Madonna is a movie killer. She died behind the eyes. She can’t get out of a paper bag. She added, for good measure, “She shouldn’t be in the movies or on stage.”
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