Monday 24 November 2003

How easy they turn

In the rich showbiz tradition of seriously fading superstars coming to Manila in a desperate attempt to halt their careers from spiraling to the South Pole, the once sultry soul sister Mariah Carey - whose last notable performance was at rehab - surfaced in town for a last hurrah and accompanying paycheck.

The super-duper VVIP treatment she was accorded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (spurred on by the pseudo-adulation showered on cue by the assembled rent-a-crowd) and the police outriders escorting her with sirens blaring to her five-star Makati hotel must have so stirred to the surface all of Carey's diva pretensions that she put to sleep a long time ago.

So no sooner had she got to her hotel suite than she threw an operatic tantrum because the bedsheets and pillow cases were not in black satin as she had stipulated. Somebody should, of course, have taken Carey aside and discreetly informed her that black was last year's thing. But always anxious to please, the hotel promptly dispatched someone from housekeeping to the nearby Glorietta Mall to get a supply of bed linen in the required color. And at least it ensured the pricey artifacts in the suite were not smashed against the walls in customary pop-star pique.

That was not all. Turning up at her post-concert party held in a bar of the very same hotel, Carey's face contorted into a scowl as she hissed that the "lights were too bright". When the lights were eventually dimmed after three attempts to her preferred level of darkness, the guests had to virtually feel their way around the place.

(ABS CBN News)



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