She Has Exposed Her Body, But Not Her Soul

Liz Smith shares a piece she wrote for Q, the Quest magazine quarterly, spotlighting the most successful - and perhaps most misunderstood - female rock artist of all time.

'I love Liz Smith because she has big balls, like me!'
Those were practically the very first words I ever heard, personally, out of Madonna’s mouth.
I was at the 1990 New York premiere of Madonna’s highly entertaining documentary, 'Truth or Dare.' I wasn’t covering it, exactly. I was there being interviewed by ABC’s 'Primetime Live.' They were doing a segment on me. So this event was an example of one of my 'glamorous nights out.' And of course I was being pressed to speak to Madonna. I’d been writing about her exhaustively since 1984, so everybody assumed we were friends. In fact, I’d never clapped eyes on her. I told the ABC people, 'Look, this is her premiere, I don’t think she wants to be part of my publicity!'
Somehow Madonna was corralled into a corner where I stood with the film crew. We exchanged hellos. Then the producer asked Madonna what she thought about me. She answered with the quote above, and we parted, laughing. (It couldn’t really be used on the air.)

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