Behind the obsessive drive was the monkey on her back – being a Hemingway and from a family where both parents were tortured by alcoholism; her older sister Margaux suffered from dyslexia, ADD, hyperactivitiy, depression until she ended the noise by taking her own life; her famous grandfather Ernest who committed suicide – along with four other family members; her sister Muffet who was schizophrenic and hospitalized.
Bob Fosse, the director of Star 80, went on drug-fueled rampages at night. He hit on her, chased her around couches, ranted that he always slept with his leading ladies, and then told her, 'You're such a manipulative little c***', when she turned him down.
Robert De Niro read for the film but didn't get the role.
'He didn't look anything like the Robert De Niro that I was in love with. He was fat and unpleasant and talking in that thick accent. And then, he started to hit on me'. She turned him down and writes he had been an 'asshole.
Eric Roberts got the role that De Niro didn't get.
'He was a dream during rehearsals – but he 'turned into a monster' when she said she wouldn't go out with him.
'He wouldn't look at me until cameras started, or he would stomp down on my toes just before a close-up. He even spit in my face once'.
'Eric wore me out every day. He made a difficult movie more difficult. And then like magic, his personality switched back'. At the end of the shoot, he said, 'Didn't we have a wonderful time'?
We will live longer than I will
We will be better than I was
We can cross rivers with our will
We can do better than I can
So dance while you can
Dance cause you must
Love out of lust
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Lana's impact on gay male pop stars is just. 
