Rick B. [[bayoumotownman)
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Username: bayoumotownman
Post Number: 316
Registered: 4-2006
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Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 8:16 am:
I might also add that if the reader is truly objective, he will come away from Randy's book knowing that Diana and Flo really cared about each other. Randy discusses Flo's last phone call to Diana only weeks before her death. Flo went and saw Mahogany and felt like she wanted to talk to Diana. It was a lovely conversation.
In the end, although Flo held anger toward Diana, to a lesser degree Mary and moreover toward BG, Flo admitted that she had been difficult. This is all spelled out in the book.
Nobody knows the pressures the Supremes were under in the mid 60s. They worked literally 7 days a week. It's amazing they lived through this. It was only natural that one or all would have cracked. The only genuine vacation time they had from 64 to 66 was when Diana collapsed onstage in Boston. The lady had to be hospitalized to get some rest. And Flo was there for Diana.
I also know of a visit from a member of Flo's family in 1970. This was edited out of Mysteries and Scandals I guess for time constraints.
It was months after Diana's last show with the Supremes. She still had a house on the same street as Florence. Diana showed up at Flo's one day while Flo was entertaining various members of her family. Flo and Diana embraced and then Flo invited her upstairs for some privacy. They emerged an hour later laughing and giggling like girlfriends. Yes, they had bad times, but what two friends don't.
I'm sure we all have a friend, or even a best friend. I have one that drives me up a wall now and then and I'll go a few weeks without talking. We've had knockdown, drag outs, go weeks, in one case years without speaking, but inevitably one of us will pick up the phone and smooth it out. When you have a history with someone that's how it works. Diana and Florence had a history. When it got down to it, they owed each other something.
When Florence Ballard died, her heart was not heavy over Diana. It was over herself.
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