There Is No Bitch, Like A Hollywood Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        There are a million--probably more--Hollywood Bitch Stories, as there are in the "Naked City."  The fact that this week's winner of the Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award, Dino De Laurentis, has been deceased for five years, does not make him ineligible.

                                           This story has probably been circulating around Hollywood for decades, but I only heard it this week.  When I did, I knew I had found the perfect winner for this week.

                                             Let's face it, as a movie maker, Dino was no world beater.  He was not about Art; oh, no, sireeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                              Back around, say 1974 or 1975, Dino was casting his latest opus, the spectacular--or supposedly so--remake of "King Kong."  This was the version where Jessica Lange ended up being cast, and for the next six years, she had to claw her way from association with this film, to become the renowned actress she is today.  It took "Frances," in 1982, to get audiences to finally realize Jessica Lange was not an Industry Joke!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               But things might have gone differently, if Dino De Laurentis, Jr.had had his way.  One night, he was at the theater, where he saw this young actress in a play, who impressed him enormously.  He thought he should bring her in to his father, and have her read for "King Kong."

                                                 The actress, who was just starting out, agreed.  She showed up at the producer's office, which was on a top floor of the Gulf Western Building, complete with a glass enclosed view of Manhattan. Dino sat at his proverbial producer's sake, looking like....a producer.

                                                  His son, walked in with the young actress.  Dino took one look at her, and said, to his son, in Italian, "Why do you bring me in this ugly thing?"

                                                   Can you believe this?  What Dino and son did not count on, was that said actress was very educated, and fluent in Italian. She answered back, angrily, in their language, "I am sorry I am not pretty enough to be in 'King Kong'!," and stormed out of the office.

                                                     Do you know who that actress was, darlings?????????

                                                      MERYL STREEP!  Yes, the Divine MERYL, herself!

                                                     What a dumb bitch Dino De Laurentis was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                       MERYL not so dumb! She never had to fight her way out of being an Industry Joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        Who had the last laugh, now, darlings??????????????????