22nd October, 2008
Diahann Carroll Talks Life and Love in New Memoir
As Wendy would say, "Mama has lived!"
When it comes to soul surviving, very few entertainers know it like Diahann Carroll knows.
The Bronx, New York born actress is a diva of the highest degree – but don't let her hear you say that. It's a term, according to the August 2008 edition of Vogue, the Tony and Golden Globe Award winner equates to "trash."
In her new memoir, 'The Legs Are The Last To Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way' (Amistad/Harper Collins), Carroll and all of her splendid grandiosity is on full display, warts and all. And that turns out to be a good thing.
Having starred in the first network sitcom – 'Julia' – revolving around a black woman in 1960s, Carroll went on to gain even more notoriety for playing "the first black 'bitch' in prime-time" in the 1980s.The first topic of discussion was digital media, the Internet and emailing, something the sophisticated lady admits to not being too familiar with.
"I'm for it because it makes the world move faster but maybe we're just a little bit too damn fast with everything," she stated, raising her left eyebrow in signature style to punctuate her point.
"Maybe we need to slow down a little bit and give ourselves a chance to refine something," she added.
When it comes to her new book, where she unflinchingly chronicles her life -- personally and professionally -- Carroll admitted to having to be pulled into the 21st century by her editor Dawn Davis to complete the project, which was six years in the making.
"There's more about it to tell, and each situation there's more about it to tell," she revealed of the page-turning tome that details her tumultuous affair with fellow black Hollywood trailblazer Sidney Poitier, along with other well-guarded nuggets from the golden days of entertainment.
"But today you guys are in such a hurry that you want to hear what it was, and to help you to evaluate it on the page is something that I don't think was of interest to anyone. [The goal was to] just tell the story."
For more juicy details from the autobiography read here. (From AOL/BlackVoices)
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