THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS

The Washington Post | November 22, 1992| | Copyright

DAME EDNA EVERAGE AND THE RISE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION Backstage with Barry Humphries By John Lahr Farrar Straus Giroux. 242 pp. $22

DAME EDNA EVERAGE has you in her sights. Things may turn ugly over the next few years as the Australian megastar - once a rather shy Melbourne housewife, now a celebrity on the London stage - begins her assault on America.

"I don't believe it!" murmured an appalled Gloria Swanson 15 years ago. She spoke for America. Now the stars are coming out to be humiliated by Edna on television. And if Hollywood crumbles, can the rest of the country resist?

By a stroke ...

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