Friday, July 20, 2007

Simply Barbra

Peach-coloured toilet roll to match her complexion, and rose petals in the toilet bowl. One hundred-and-twenty designer bathroom towels also in peach. Ten highly specified designer floor lamps....

Her list of demands ever since is as varied as it is lengthy. She once demanded staff at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas enter and leave her room backwards (she justified this with the response: "I'm simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful and driven")....
More here if you can stand it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

120 towels seems like a few too many, does she steal them?

Anonymous said...

It was painful Michael, but I read on, and particularly enjoyed this quote: "But maybe they should not have been surprised: American lyricist Paul Williams once described working with her as 'like having a picnic at the end of an airport runway'."