Not so surprising, considering her documented initial reaction to the gay kiss in Sunday, Bloody Sunday was having to leave the theatre and throw up over the kissing scene, and then to publicly wonder how Peter Finch's career would go....
Is it safe to assume the Dame Shirl was in a lesbian phase when the sight of two men made her vomit? Cuz closeted "straight" ladies used to say that kinda crap ALL THE TIME back then.
She's like a lot of successful powerful women. There is only room for HER and men at the table. Margaret Thatcher was just the same, but w/out the redeeming feature of a great voice.
Dame Shirley will be in a nursing home soon enough then she can eat ...pudding!
sabrelady -- I know all too well the Boss Biatches you allude to,starting with a colleague/good friend who spent 30 yrs putting other females through the ringer in front of men to earn bona fides.
"There’s a reason why men are here. If I was flying with a female pilot, for instance, I’d be very worried. Women have periods and hormones, and that bothers me about women who want men’s jobs."
Now I'm worried about her singing on a stage anywhere. I mean women have periods and hormones and she might not make it through the song.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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touche @ "Which is the same generation that gave us Gloria Steinem, who is actually three years Bassey's senior."
From what I recall, Shirley's life story reads like a knock off of the one Jackie Collins novel that I got a third of the way through some years ago. The OP's subject line if a rather good description of her. Much of the western world will be forced to endure a version of Shirley or a charter member of #TeamElan at the dinner table later this week.