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Post by MatureCritique on Oct 12, 2016 16:37:33 GMT
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Post by mpn1jco on Oct 12, 2016 16:38:30 GMT
Cause for concern. Hope Ross is ok. Attachments:
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Post by chainreaction on Oct 12, 2016 16:40:15 GMT
After RTL, getting dumped by Arne and Motown is when Ross started appearing in public like a bag lady and packing on the pounds. Attachments:
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Post by roberta75 on Oct 12, 2016 16:41:59 GMT
RTL- Real Tired Lies. Congratulations on your new gossip site!
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Post by mpn1jco on Oct 12, 2016 16:54:07 GMT
'Pals Are Praying!' Diana Ross — Looking Disheveled Amongst New Drug Fears The National ENQUIRER caught Diana Ross out shopping at Beverly Hills — but the legendary diva looked more in need of a a beauty parlor! The 72-year-old singer has always let her hair take the spotlight, but Miss Ross' beauty was almost lost amongst the locks! Disturbingly, though, Diana's surprising look comes just as her friends fear the star might relapse into prior addictions! Attachments:
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Post by chainreaction on Oct 12, 2016 16:55:25 GMT
Ross is not looking to good. I hope she hasn't relapsed. Attachments:
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Post by Rossknockers on Oct 12, 2016 18:20:52 GMT
Looks amazing for 72.
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Post by clark on Oct 12, 2016 20:13:37 GMT
No Love Lost Tour Tinged By Bad Blood, And High Ticket Prices Sour Some Fans
by Jenice M. Armstrong, Daily News Staff Writer
Mary Wilson is probably feeling vindicated right about now.
Things are not going as well as hoped for the much-hyped Diana Ross and the Supremes "Return to Love" concert tour.
It has gotten reams of negative press, and ticket sales for the 26-city tour that kicks off tomorrow at the First Union Spectrum have been disappointing. Promoters here would not release sales figures, but box-office workers last week said they still had lots of tickets available, leading organizers, no doubt, to wonder: Baby, baby, where did the love for the Supremes go?
Wilson, an original founding member of the record-setting trio, bowed out of the proposed reunion tour after she and Cindy Birdsong, who joined the group in 1967, failed to reach an agreement with ex-lead singer Diana Ross over how much they should be paid.
Diva Diana stepped up and proclaimed that the tour would not stop, in the name of love, and promptly hired Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne, who had toured with the Supremes during the 1970s, to perform in their place.
But many fans have balked at forking over up to $250 a ticket to hear Ross croon "Baby Love," "Love Child" and other Supremes classics with two little-known backup singers.
"I don't want to slam Lynda and Scherrie but a real reunion is Mary and Cindy," said Patty Jackson, an on-air personality for Power 99 radio. "They are the ones that started it.
"I think this is really going to bite [Ross] in the butt. What goes around comes around - she's going to lose so much money on this tour. You know the old saying, 'God don't like ugly.' "
The bad blood between Ross and Wilson dates back to their early days in the Supremes, when Ross became the lead singer and the group's name was changed to Diana Ross and the Supremes.
Ross embarked on a solo career in 1969. With Wilson out front, the Supremes continued to perform until 1977, using a succession of singers over the years.
Then, in 1983, Wilson and Birdsong, who replaced original Supreme Florence Ballard in 1967, joined Ross for an ill-fated reunion on the "Motown 25" television special.
When Ross began organizing the Return to Love tour, she invited Wilson to be a part of it, but Wilson balked at the $2 million offer. Ross upped it to $3 million but Wilson rejected that, too, and demanded a fee more akin to the $20 million Ross was projected to make.
Undeterred, Ross hired Laurence and Payne, who had joined the Supremes in 1971 and 1973 respectively.
"I can't say that I'm surprised that it didn't work out between Mary and Diana," said J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of "Call Me Miss Ross: An Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross" (Birch Lane, 1989).
"Mary and Diana have not really communicated with each other going back to 1965. They never really talked about the important things. Mary and Diana have never discussed Florence's death. They have never discussed her leaving the Supremes," said Taraborrelli, who will be in the first row at tomorrow night's concert.
Some critics have labeled the tour a sham, pointing out that Payne and Laurence were not original members of the group and until recently had never performed with Ross. One writer dubbed them the Dupe-remes and accused Ross of trying to trick the public.
"This tour got, like, the worst publicity of any tour I've ever seen," said David Browne, music critic for Entertainment Weekly.
"It seemed like right from the get-go that this tour has left a lot of people with a really bad taste in their mouth."
Through their spokesmen, both Ross and Wilson declined to be interviewed.
Wilson's publicist, Jay D. Schwartz, said Wilson bears no ill will toward the tour and remains open to the possibility of joining it even at this late date.
"If [Ross] wanted Mary on this tour, all she has to do is pick up the phone and say 'Let's do this,' " he said. "She wouldn't have to say she's wrong."
"All she has to do is say 'The fans have spoken and they want Mary and Cindy out there.' Maybe she will come to her senses."
Then he started quoting the words from one of Ross' trademark songs, "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand":
"All she has to do is, 'If you need me, call me. I'll be there in a hurry. On that you can depend and never worry," he said. "Just call my name."
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Post by MatureCritique on Oct 12, 2016 21:30:04 GMT
Wow - Mary and Cindy, $3m or nothing. Umm, which to take?
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Post by flo on Oct 12, 2016 23:04:52 GMT
That is why Diana Ross has been doing endless one nighters for the past 10 years, the RTL set her back financially. She does more one night stands than Mary Wilson these days, in venues that she never consider playing in her heyday. The stint at the Venetian room , is just that, a small room.
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Post by tonyturner on Oct 12, 2016 23:09:23 GMT
I wonder if she gets free drinks for playing those small venues.
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Post by musicguy on Oct 12, 2016 23:21:28 GMT
Wow - Mary and Cindy, $3m or nothing. Umm, which to take? Not considering the $$$, it was insulting to tell Mary and Cindy that all they had to do is show up. Just another example of Miss Ross' self-centered behavior.
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Post by motownfan on Oct 12, 2016 23:29:21 GMT
Her image is a very false one. Everyone could see that. The main thing that hurt her record sales most is that she was not producing good music after she left Mr. Gordy and Motown. I can't even remember much of music after 1981's "Endless Love" and that was on the radio all time it seemed. Along with her mainly sub-standard output, people literally mocked her "don't look at me crap". I have attended functions where people were walking around acting that out. So sad.
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Post by PedrobeatMary on Oct 12, 2016 23:40:39 GMT
If the gigs get any smaller 4 Diane or Mary perhaps they could be Uber drivers. Which Primette should drive me around. The one with a DUI who almost ran over a blind boy or the one who actually killed her kid driving by falling asleep?
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Post by flo on Oct 12, 2016 23:46:16 GMT
Her image is a very false one. Everyone could see that. The main thing that hurt her record sales most is that she was not producing good music after she left Mr. Gordy and Motown. I can't even remember much of music after 1981's "Endless Love" and that was on the radio all time it seemed. Along with her mainly sub-standard output, people literally mocked her "don't look at me crap". I have attended functions where people were walking around acting that out. So sad. Diana Ross believed that all of her success at Motown was due to her. With all of those hit records, all she had to do was put down her vocal. With just that, it took a village to create a Diana Ross record to make her vocals sound right. She was able to coast on her past glory with her first few RCA albums, then the public got sick of her. The only reason Silk Electric sold is because of Muscles. Another turn off was hearing her voice without the team creating a studio production. Her voice sounded like she phoned her vocals in, fuzzy and lost in the mix. A mega bitch - who can't sing? Time to go sweetheart.
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