[BombaySapphire3]

If the article is true it is unfortunate.The entire scenerio is very reminiscent of an incident that occured in early 1953 at a Photoplay awards dinner in L. A..A young and voluptuos Marilyn Monroe arrived more than fashionably late to the event in a skin tight gold lame` gown that she had literally been sown into ,she stopped the show and prompted Jerry Lewis to make a spectacle of himself jumping on a table and imitating an animal in heat.Joan Crawford ,nearly 50 herself,was at the dinner and later attacked Marilyn in the press in a very similar way that the Aussie paper has Stevie going off about blatant sexuality vs. subtle and a more mysterious intimation of sensuality.I am not saying that Stevie is like Joan Craword, expect in both cases they had been stars for 25 yrs or more and had managed to out last most of their peers and Joan like Stevie had certainly been no saint herself.What ultimately occured is that the press begin to turn on Crawford after years of being in it's good graces.Stevie has worked a long time to get to the postion in which she is now,being a long time fan I can remember when the press treated her very unkindly.Now she is regarded mostly as a venerated legend.I really hope this incident has been exaggerated .I would hate to see Stevie's realitively new found respect begin to diminish in a flurry of negative press.