Te darker side of Lesley Gore

Her best song

[quote] When I complemented her she immediately gave me a look that could kill.

It's because she could tell you can't spell to save your life.

Oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]

Lesley Gore was a lesbian and probably suffered from a lot of internalized homophobia and anger because she couldn't 'come out' at that time.

Maybe that's why you got such a frosty reception from her. She came out later in life not that long before she died. But it was a big secret back in the day.

I'm calling bullshit on this story.

[quote]But instead she chose to respond to a compliment in a horribly rude fashion

What did she say? Clearly, whoever wrote this paragraph is not creative enough to think of a horribly rude comment she could tell back in this context -- which can only mean that the story is false.

Lesley Gore was 68 years old when she died back in 2015.

Lesley Gore in later years.

Hey Now, OP!

If she just gave a look... that's not a rude comment. But I think such an encounter could well have happened. Remember the Taylor Dayne story from Tig Notaro. Some people feel the need to distance themselves from their past successes because the successes hang over their present and act as a reminder that things aren't going so well nowadays.

Lesley seems to have made her peace with it by the mid to late 80s, when she duetted with the likes of Lou Christie and settled into earning a living from the oldies circuit.

She's a petite singer.

Never heard of her. She looks like John Goodman.

🎶gore gore gore, how do you like it, how do you like it 🎶

She looks positively combative in that clip. Did she evah work for the secret service?

You can't expect people will be receptive to your fangurldom 24/7, OP. She might have been in a rush, or worried about something else.

I met her after a show a couple of years before she died. She came out to the lobby after the show, signed albums,CDs . She could not have been nicer or more gracious. Striking eyes. Sounded terrific btw and seemed to be an accomplished musician.

When I told her first time I saw her was on Sha Na Na’s tv show,she said she had just seen Jon Bauman (Bowzer) recently.(I think she said they had dinner.) . I thought that was really interesting considering her appearance on the show probably was 30 years earlier and kind of cool that they were friends.

Also I was towards the end of the line but didn’t feel like there was any push or rush to get out of there.

I knew her and her partner Lois. Leslie was great, and a wonderful song writer as well. She wrote "Out Here on My Own" from Fame with her brother Michael Gore. Her parents had two gay and talented children of whom they were very proud.

It's Lesley, not Leslie.

Where are the “brutal comments” from her fans? You mean one possibly fabricated “anecdote” from an infuriated, spelling-impaired DL Queen? FAIL.

OP, like most addled loser waitresses who are still pocketing her "pool 'em" tips after 50 years at the diner, cannot let the late Ms. Gore's "nasty look" go,

Poor Les probably couldn't hear you because she didn't speak heifter pisspot. The look on her face probably came from her thinking she was hearing a mosquito hovering in her vicinity.

Let it go, Flo. You'll be dead soon and why carry such bullshit to your grave. Excuse me - crematorium.

Lesley didn't record this but she wrote it for a movie character loosely based on herself. It certainly has her sound. Love it.

I was surprised to read that she wasn't a smoker. I guess she used improper technique because her voice didn't age all that well.

You are killing me, R18.

R18 isn't funny, just very old and mean. Sounds like that miss warwick dude.

This is my Lesley Gore M&G story. She was rude, not classy, and she lost a long time fan that day. I walked into the $350 M&G and said 'hello'. She replies with 'fat' and I shook it off because I thought maybe I had heard her wrong. As I approached her and asked to do my pose she stared at me blank faced. I continued talking 'you saved my life' I say, 'you're the reason I'm alive today.' She looks me dead in the eye and says 'you'll die soon enough, fatty' and then whispered 'obesity'. I started crying, I had never felt pain like this and she started laughing and said 'are you crying? Stop it. Stop it now,' and she flicked my vagina. The photographer took the picture and I headed out of the M&G section and that's when Lesley started speaking whale to me. I still can't believe this happened. I cried writing this. I wish this weren't true but Lesley Gore is, in fact, a horrible person. Thank you.

So, the waiter says he complimented her and was a big fan yet didn't recognizer her when she came into the restaurant?

So Lesley was nicer after she was out?

Well done, r38. I'm laughing through tears

[quote]When I complemented her she immediately gave me a look that could kill

It's her dinner and she'll be rude if she wants to...You would be rude too, if it happened to you

I used to see her shopping in the Saks Fifth Avenue [the flagship store in NYC]. She seemed quite modest as she went around the store on her own and didn't seem to require any special treatment.

I suppose these days someone of her stature would be surrounded by an entourage. What happened to modesty!?

she sat behind me at a play iin nyc once, iin the eights,

she had resting bitch face, fer sure, she prob like her privacy and not bein recognized, plus the paranoid dyke issues...but she prob an ok gal, in the right place...

alwys saw stars at the Lucille lortel theatre. its an awesome lil theatre...

R26 is clairvoyant.

Leslie had cane-voice and fatass wall-to-wall hips!