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poster53180
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9/25/2003 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 12:07:39 AM ET
My FAVORITE part of the article is this...
“She’s just a normal little girl,” Mrs. Lazzara says, pulling some beads out of Bernadette’s dresser. “She likes beads."
how cute it that? she likes beads! Thanks so much for posting the article Moljul! much appreciated!
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 moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 12:15:10 AM ET
Did I not tell you all it was adorable! 
And I'm sure Bernadette was just wild about her mother referring to her as "a little girl" when she was 20 years old!
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poster53180
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9/25/2003 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 12:21:39 AM ET
I wonder why they didn't refer to her sister at all though? I also loved the end exchange about her moving to the city. SO CUTE.
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moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 12:24:48 AM ET
I'm assuming that because her sister didn't live at home at the time was why she wasn't mentioned as they were only mentioning the family that lived in the house. Some of those profiles don't really scratch below the surface. But I found it weird too.
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11/6/2003 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 9:44:07 AM ET
"And then in November, after Bernadette had taken a vacation in Puerto Rico to get her “first tan,”
Too funny!
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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 10:53:04 AM ET
I love how completely down-to-earth and unpretentious they all sound--qualities I still associate with Bernadette. It's hard to pick a favorite line because they're all so good, but I do really love "We're Sicilian, but we say Italian because otherwise people think of the mafia." And it's interesting that she says Pisces are associated with vulnerable feet, because after all, she supposedly caught that awful flu/respiratory infection when she went to get a pedicure. What a fabulous article! Oh, and Chiquita, Bernadette did do some regional productions of Dames in the early seventies. There was one in suburban Chicago and one in Connecticut and probably several others as well. So yeah, she probably was in one when she was 24.
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moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 11:02:58 AM ET
Karen, I never connected the Pisces/feet thing with the pedicure/Gypsy thing. That's amazing. Great catch!
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moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 12:40:24 PM ET
2/9/69
I remember an article where she said her father didn't particularly like her low-cut gowns that she wore when she performed. Very few fathers would, I'd imagine. She said something like he would always ask her what she was wearing but she stoppped telling him after a while.
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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 1:18:39 PM ET
Moljul, I think I know what article you're referring to. It was in the Sept 21, 2000 issue of the Philadelphia City Paper, when she was just starting her post-AGYG concert tour. Here's the relevant part: The talented Peters has been able to deftly combine overt sex and little-girl innocence in her stage persona. "I have some of each of those sides," she said on the phone last week. "I look sexy, but I never try to be lascivious. That's the difference. And I always treat the sexiness with a sense of humor." Did any of the men in her life ever object to her famously-plunging necklines? "My father did. Until he died this year he always wanted to know what I'd be wearing for my concerts, and I never told him."
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Chiquita
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Thanx again Moljul!
Where is the article from? It would be interesting to see what type of magazine it was from because of the content in the article!
P.S. I'm starting to see your point about her dad.
You either got it, or you aint!
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moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 5:39:56 PM ET
Yes, Karen, that is the one.
Chiquita, I'm sorry, someone asked me before where it was from and I forgot to answer. Its from the New York Times. I have a copy of the article now and it actually shows a cute (if not a little too much of a close up) of Bernadette and her mother and father.
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11/6/2003 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 8:01:51 PM ET
"The critics are always mentioning my feet. Kerr mentioned my feet in his review."
What is it about her feet that would draw comment? Is it a reference to her dancing?
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Chiquita
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Thanx Moljul!
You should put the picture on the site!
You either got it, or you aint!
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/18/2003 at 9:18:07 PM ET
I can't remember exactly how the Walter Kerr comment goes, but it's something VERY ROUGHLY like:
"Ms. Peters is especially interesting in relation to her feet. She dances as if she were trying to kick off her feet." 
It was in his review of "Dames at Sea", I think. If anyone has the resources, it would be in the (now departed) New York Herald Tribune, around Dec. 1968.
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moljul
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| posted: 12/18/2003 at 10:15:10 PM ET
That review is quoted in the 1999 "Next" Magazine interview. All my "BP Stuff" is packed away in boxes but maybe someone else has a copy of it. Though Jean, you are very close.
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PTM
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Here's the quote. I believe Kerr was writing for the Times by then, at least that's what it looks like in this booklet I have for Dames featuring copies of many reviews for the show.
"Miss Peters is especially interesting in relation to her feet: she dances as if they'd stuck to her and she were frantically trying to get rid of them."
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