On-stage, Donna Summer holds her microphone seductively close, moves her hips suggestively and croons in a throaty, teasing growl lyrics like “. . . do it to me again and again.” The 30-year-old Disco Queen, in other words, is not an understated or muted performer....
“I suppose that Burt and I knew what I was getting into when I took over ‘Police Woman’ ” says Angie Dickinson sadly, pondering the fate of her shattered marriage to composer Burt Bacharach, “but it turned out even worse than either of us thought.”...
Olivia Newton-John, sometimes referred to as the Doris Day of the ’70’s, agrees that “I’m really a very normal person. I don’t take drugs, and I don’t get into any strange situations,” but she isn’t all that thrilled at the prospect of being label-led “dull.”...
A former model, Pam Dawber is candid about the depression she fell into when her sister and other close family members died, and she herself had lost all direction....