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Davina Moody - Drama Queen
Davina Moody
Drama Queen
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday, February 8th

She arrived by private jet on Sunday morning with 20-strong entourage, including her PA (personal assistant), the PA to the PA, her hairdresser, make-up artist, manicurist, chef, dietician, masseuse, personal trainer, chauffeur, six bodyguards and, of course, a vet for her six month-old King Charles Spaniel, Pooksie.

By Sunday evening the staff at Calofornia´s Hollywood Hills Hotel, who have met and looked after some of the world´s most famous and most temperamental film stars, felt that this star deserved an Oscar for her off-screen performace. Davina Moody was very moody, the moodiest of them all.

A Series of Disasters
Miss Moody is in Hollywood to attend the premiere of her latest movie. She has hired 17 rooms in the hotel at a cost of $40,000 a night. Unfortunately, since her arrival, there have been a series of disasters. These have given the usually calm and patient Arnold Baglioni, hotel manager, a near nervous breakdown and played havoc with the normal running of his hotel.

1. No red carpet!
The first disaster came very soon after her arrival. Davina climbed out of her white stretch-limousine onto... the sidewalk. There was NO RED CARPET and Miss Moody NEVER walks on sidewalk. She hasn't walked on a sidewalk since she became a child star nearly 30 years ago.

2. No white roses!
Worse was to follow. The corridor leading to her rooms was lined with roses. Davina loves roses but these were yellow roses. In fact Miss Moody hates anything yellow. She has never worn anything yellow in her life.

3. The wrong lighting!
Davina travels with a 'lighting director'. She has just employed a new lighting director. He has the job of organizing the lighting in any room to show her face to its best advantage. She likes pink light. She looks younger with pink ones. The lights in her hotel room were... yellow! Miss Moody has now moved rooms and fired the lighting director.

4. Fire! Fire!
A real disaster! At midnight on Monday there was a fire in the hotel kitchens. The fire brigade arrived and ordered everyone to leave the building. However, the hotel staff were too afraid to wake Miss Moody. They decided to let her sleep. Fortunately the fire was small. After ten hours' sleep, Miss Moody woke in a bad mood. No one has had the courage to inform her of the danger she was in.

5. The worst disaster of all!
Tuesday was the big day - the premiere of The Lady Loves To. Before it, there was a special champagne reception. Hundreds of important people from the movie industry were invited to greet the beutiful star. They came and they waited... and waited. Three hours and 500 bottles of champagne later, Miss Moody's PA to the PA rushed into the room. The explanation? Davina was too upset to attend - she had a broken finger nail and nobody could find the manicurist.

A happy and not so happy ending!
Davina Moody missed the premiere. Perhaps this was fortunate. This morning's newspaper headlines read: DAVINA'S $10,000,000 MOVIE DISASTER. So her movie has flopped, and apparently the manicurist and Mr Baglioni have run away together to start a new life.

Questions:
3. Read the first part if the article.
1. How did Davina travel?
2. Who did she travel with?
3. Is Davina the first famous star to stay in the hotel?
4. Did the hotel staff enjoy looking after her?

6. Read the article again Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
1. Davina Moody has hired 40 rooms in the hotel.
2. The hotel manager has had a nervous breakdown.
3. She has been a star for many years.
4. She always wears yellow dresses.
5. She didn't like the lighting in her room.
6. She was very angry when the staff woke her up.
7. She met hundreds of important people at the champagne reception.
8. Her film was not successful.
9. She sacked her manicurist.