> The one that really
>stuck out in my mind from this book was using her pull with
>Berry Gordy to be cast as a thirty-something year-old Dorothy
>in the Wiz, ousting Stephanie Mills. To this day I get pissed
>hearing her warble "Home" in the that film, knowing Stephanie
>would've knocked it out the park.

Her pull with Universal, not Gordy. Gordy wanted, if not Stephanie Mills, some teenaged girl to play the part. Not grown-ass Diana Ross, lookin' like Skeletor when she hits that last note of "Home" at the end of the picture.


Patti's story of Diana's backstage
>shenanigans when the Supremes shared the bill with the
>Bluebelles are priceless. Here's a short youtube clip of Patti
>discussing her issues with Miss Ross lol:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h3tbNtv4r0

Diana was a little notorious for stealing outfit ideas, choreography, riffs, stage stylings, etc. from any and every artist she saw. I guess she took that "great artists steal" thing to heart.

>
>In the book 'Motown: Music, Money, Sex & Power' there was an
>alleged incident involving her trying to run over Martha
>Reeves in the Motown parking lot.
>

Not Martha Reeves, but Gladys Horton from the Marvelettes, whom Diane (at the time) Ross had deemed her sworn enemy. Eve better was Gladys telling her to "Come on! Hit me, you crazy bitch!"