Sarah Bernhardt was the first modern celebrity, skilled at P.R., engaged with her own mythologizing and with a howling emptiness at her core. Her first publicity stunt was to shout, “You miserable bitch” at a grande dame and slap her in the face…
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Sarah Bernhardt was the first modern celebrity, skilled at P.R., engaged with her own mythologizing and with a howling emptiness at her core. Her first publicity stunt was to shout, “You miserable bitch” at a grande dame and slap her in the face…