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Index
Praise
Books by J. Randy Taraborelli
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Prologue
Part One: Diane
“I remain in bondage”
“Fight like you never fought before”
The Brewster Projects and the Primettes
Father and daughter in conflict
The Primettes start rehearsals
Berry Gordy Jr.: pioneering a movement
Auditioning for Berry Gordy
The first recording sessions
Fred Ross’s bad idea
A loss of innocence
Diana and Smokey
Cass Technical High School
1962
The Motor Town Revue
“Just a little bit softer now.”
“Why are they singing leads?”
Girl trouble
Part Two: Supreme Success
Twists of fate
The first hit: “Where Did Our Love Go”
The Motown Sound … the Motown way
1965: a banner year
Somebody loves you
The balance of power
Ecstasy to the tenth power
Finances
“Class will turn the heads of kings and queens”
“Are you mad because I’m the lead singer?”
The Supremes at the Copa
Florence: “I’ll do it my way”
Coming home
No Flo, no show
Diana’s Boston breakdown
“No one ever wins”
“Call her Miss Ross”
The die is cast
Florence is fired
“I’ll bet Diane just loves that marquee …”
Florence’s birthday
Not over till the fat lady sings?
Part Three: Diana Ross and the Supremes
Deconstruction
Echoing Martin Luther King’s words
Ernestine’s advice
Florence is pregnant
From Funny Girl to “Love Child”
Making a statement for civil rights
The lonely leading lady
Cindy is kidnapped
Someday we’ll be together?
A farewell in Las Vegas
Part Four: Solo Star
Las Vegas solo turn
Heartbreak
Finally breaking from Berry
A wedding and a baby … but whose?
“The blues? But why?”
“Why pick a girl who can’t really act?”
It’s official: Diana will play Lady Day
Recording the Lady soundtrack
Making the movie
Touch me in the morning
Lady Sings the Blues
Consensus
“Oscar, anyway”
How do you follow a Lady?
Preparing for Mahogany
Casting Mahogany: “How much?”
Filming Mahogany
Diana slaps Berry
“Forget Diana”
Mommy
Love, Flo
Diana and Bob divorce
A million bucks before breakfast
The Wiz
Part Five: Miss Ross
“Miss Ross to you”
Ryan O’Neal
Coming out
Diana leaves Motown
The RCA years
Grappling with the past
No wind, no rain can stop me …
Classic “Miss Ross”
The good life
A death and a new life
Arne
Paparazzi nightmare
Michael Jackson sends his regrets
Diana and Arne marry
Part Six: Ordeal
Mary Wilson’s Dreamgirl
More babies … and back to Motown
Chico in trouble
Out of darkness … but not quite
Diana’s marriage to Arne in trouble
T-Boy dies
Diana and Arne split
Detained at Heathrow
Diana and Mary: battle royal
A return to love?
Recrimination
Promises made and broken
DUI
Death and life
Picture Section
Epilogue: home at last
A final note
Update, 2008
Update, 2014
Acknowledgments
Discography and Other Notes
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Copyright
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