Dionne Warwick
Appearances
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Oh, yeah. Sure. Well, like what? Well, I have already an interior design company. There you go.
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Yeah. I actually stopped Sidney Poitier. I did. I really did. I don't think anybody can blame you for that.
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I was coming out of a recording session. And we were walking down Broadway, and all of a sudden I realized I was walking behind Sidney Poitier. And I said, oh my God. And you know, you've seen it in film. I did it.
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You know, you walk behind somebody and you don't want them to know that you're walking behind them and then they stop and you stop and you... So he like, oh really, so he like spins around because it's like someone's following me and you did the thing where you looked away, oh no, I just happened to be standing here two feet behind you. No, no, he stopped at a red light.
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That's when he turned around and said, young lady, I said, are you talking to me? You've been following me. Is there a reason? And of course, I said, I had a complete loss of words. Finally, I got up the nerve to ask him, will you sign this piece of paper for me? He said, of course I will. And he did. And I still have that piece of paper.
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Perhaps you know me from my many gold records. I don't think he would have cared. Really? It was one of those really surreal moments where, I mean, I'm looking in the face. I'm sitting in front of you. You know, and such a nice man. Yes. A lovely man. Every time I was around him after years go by, every time he said, young lady, can I do something?
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Oh, why not? He's dating everybody else. I know.
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Well, I don't like the sound of shattered glass at all. I have too many valuable pieces.
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Okay, so they're out. Hernia? Yeah, with some of the stuff that I have to move, they would get a hernia.
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I think it was his ex that he... You think it's that one?
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Oh, yeah. I mean, it's something I've always tell people. I never wanted to work. To work. Ever. No. And when this ever becomes a job, that's when I take my ballet slippers and do my pirouette and say, bye.