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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 174563" data-attributes="member: 57984">There are divas and then there are über-divas, and Faye is an über-diva. As was Joan Crawford. As all true divas are indeed über-divas. You have to live your greatest role -- the role of You -- 24/7, all day long, even when you&#039;re asleep and even when you&#039;re on the toilet. Perhaps especially when you&#039;re on the toilet. Where the sheer fabulosity of You and Your Ego are at full staff at all times, publicly and privately, and if a camera happens to catch it -- let alone a movie camera -- then all the better. But it&#039;s not, by any means, a requirement.I recall Marlene Dietrich&#039;s daughter describing her mother&#039;s final decade of life, an alcoholic on painkillers, withdrawing to her Parisian apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne, mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few to enter her suite, Marlene in a constant and self-conscious state of delicious decay, as if a largely non-existent audience were observing unflinchingly, becoming a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller, endlessly transcribing a revisionist version of her life to be consumed upon her death.That&#039;s an über-diva. A level of bottomless, vulgarly poetic self-absorption even the most-shameless Instagram model today cannot possibly fathom or be expected to. <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/31/15/37C1674700000578-3767184-image-m-8_1472653593581.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gX7KSSVuiUk/Tv-i7Dkaa1I/AAAAAAAADV4/FqOU6CtBj2w/s1600/Annex+-+Dietrich%252C+Marlene+%2528Morocco%2529_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 174563, member: 57984"] There are divas and then there are [I]über[/I]-divas, and Faye is an [I]über[/I]-diva. As was Joan Crawford. As all true divas are indeed [I]über-[/I]divas. You have to live your greatest role -- the role of [I][B]You[/B][/I] -- 24/7, all day long, even when you're asleep and even when you're on the toilet. Perhaps [I]especially[/I] when you're on the toilet. Where the sheer fabulosity of You and Your Ego are at full staff at all times, publicly and privately, and if a camera happens to catch it -- let alone a movie camera -- then all the better. But it's not, by any means, a requirement. I recall Marlene Dietrich's daughter describing her mother's final decade of life, an alcoholic on painkillers, withdrawing to her Parisian apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne, mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few to enter her suite, Marlene in a constant and self-conscious state of delicious decay, as if a largely non-existent audience were observing unflinchingly, becoming a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller, endlessly transcribing a revisionist version of her life to be consumed upon her death. That's an [I]über-[/I]diva. A level of bottomless, vulgarly poetic self-absorption even the most-shameless Instagram model today cannot possibly fathom or be expected to. [IMG]https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/31/15/37C1674700000578-3767184-image-m-8_1472653593581.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gX7KSSVuiUk/Tv-i7Dkaa1I/AAAAAAAADV4/FqOU6CtBj2w/s1600/Annex+-+Dietrich%252C+Marlene+%2528Morocco%2529_03.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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