My least favourite radical chic interviewee: the talented but humourless Ute Lemper. Ensconced in a luxury suite at the Savoy, she embarked on a lecture about the downtrodden masses, and was so busy talking about how East German workers were exploited that she forgot to even acknowledge the existence of the maid who’d put a tray of tea in front of her.
– Clive Davis commenting on this.
Reminds me of the famous Gloria Swanson gaffe where on a BOAC flight to London she asked a somewhat harried stewardess, “is there much of a servant problem in London?”, to which the girl replied, “no madam, I’m quite sure you will have no problem finding employment”.
A ‘free society’ is a wonderful idea.
The ‘left’ are against it (passionately).
How very typically Socialist. The poor are an abstract, to be helped by their theory. What does not it matter if their theory is wrong in practice? They think good thoughts and that is all that matters.
Didn’t Michael “Man of the people” Moore behave in a similar fashion at Cannes last year?