The singer on living with Parkinson’s, the perils of stardom, and mourning what the border has become.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 8, 2019 9:37 PM |
Thanks so much for that, OP. Best Linda interview I think I've ever read.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 1, 2019 12:28 PM |
I met her once, in 1971. Such a sweet lady.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 1, 2019 12:49 PM |
Bump, because it should be bumped!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 1, 2019 4:56 PM |
That was a really good interview. She’s had an amazing career full of risks and daring.
The close was a bit sad, with her choices of songs that she wishes she could sing. Sad for her and for us.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 1, 2019 5:30 PM |
Just read this twice. It is a great interview!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 2, 2019 10:45 PM |
Where is the Linda Ronstadt troll?
This thread should’ve hot 600 by now with his posts alone.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 2, 2019 10:48 PM |
A bit astonishing that she took issue with the Selena jokes on Howard Stern and then she got most of the blowback from it.
I never really understood why people went on his show. I always thought he was cruel, and worse yet, entirely unfunny..
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 2, 2019 10:51 PM |
It’s a a great interview but she really seems to downplay her drug use at the height of her career. Wasn’t she a major coke fiend?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 2, 2019 11:58 PM |
What she said [R8] is that she doesn’t seem to have an addictive personality. She’s been open in the past about taking drugs - she certainly would have had a lot of exposure in that industry and with the company she kept - but hers seems to have been more a used, never abused kind of thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 3, 2019 12:23 AM |
Surprised she mentioned the McGarrigles but not Karla Bonoff.
I respectfully submit she owes Ms. Bonoff a great deal more recognition than she's ever given her....
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 3, 2019 12:34 AM |
I believe Linda’s grandmother had Parkinson’s, and it can be genetic, so that’s likely the source. But I have read that prolonged cocaine use has also been linked to the disease - just look at Richard Pryor, Robin Williams (LBD), and Pope John Paul II.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 3, 2019 12:35 AM |
Do you think Pope John Paul II’s nasal membranes collapsed and he had to have a PA blow coke up his ass with a straw like Stevie Nicks?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 3, 2019 12:53 AM |
She said in the interview that she has progressive supranuclear palsy, the aggressive Parkinson's variant that killed Dudley Moore.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 3, 2019 12:58 AM |
Hey R12 what happens in Vatican City, stays in Vatican City.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 3, 2019 12:59 AM |
Sex Parties, Drugs and Gay Escorts at the Pope's Residence: Undercover in the Vatican
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 3, 2019 1:07 AM |
R8, she did not have a coke problem.
Robin Williams had Lewy’s dementia-
Great interview.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 3, 2019 1:26 AM |
“Robin Williams' widow says he 'only had three years left' after Parkinson's diagnosis“
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 3, 2019 1:30 AM |
Another great read R18 - thanks for posting that!
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 11, 2019 7:54 PM |
Thank you, OP-- very interesting!
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 11, 2019 8:29 PM |
She loves Beyoncé, as do we all. She was kind of the Beyoncé of her day.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 11, 2019 8:31 PM |
Why wasn't this called "baby you're no good"?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 11, 2019 9:07 PM |
Fuck off Beyonce troll....do you take some sick pleasure in derailing threads that have nothing to do with that no talent hack ?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 11, 2019 9:25 PM |
You sound delusional R23. Get some rest. Linda Ronstadt does love Beyonce, she's said so in every interview.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 11, 2019 9:28 PM |
Linda Ronstadt has been trending on Twitter all morning...apparently at the State Department dinner last night honoring the Kennedy Center recipients, she laid into Mike Pompeo who was hosting the event.
Per Sam Greisman....At the State Dept. dinner for the Kennedy Center honorees Mike Pompeo wondered aloud when he would be “loved”. Then Linda Ronstadt got up to get laurels, looked the fucker right in the eye and said “maybe when you stop enabling Donald Trump”. Icon.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 8, 2019 8:19 PM |
He said something like he had traveled the world and "when will I be loved." Then she stood up and answered him. ^
The room was stunned and silent for a few seconds, then there some spattered applause, then the room exploded with applause. Linda Ronstadt spoke for so many. This must have been a very humiliating moment for the coward Pompeo.
For those who don't remember, this event is now dinner at the State Department. It always used to be at the White House but too many honoree's were turning it down cause they didn't want to go to Trump's White House. I wonder who will end up in the Presidents Box?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 8, 2019 9:37 PM |
