Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 463

BY EILEEN SHAPIRO
CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT
PIA
ZADORA
An Exquisite Anomaly
Exquisite anomaly, actress
and singer Pia Zadora is an
unforgettable celebrity personality.
A child Broadway and film star
Zadora rose to national prominence
following her featured role in the
highly criticized film “Butterfly”
which won her a Golden Globe
for New Star of the Year and at
the same time she also acquired
the Golden Raspberry Award for
Worst Actress and Worst New Star
for that very same performance.
Switching her focus to music after
her acting career failed to take
off as she hoped, Zadora was
nominated for a Grammy in 1984.
Pia Zadora is like no one I have ever interviewed in the best possible way.
You might say she is authentically different than most, also in the best
possible way. We had an intimate conversation regarding her career and
her life. She was intriguing, fascinating, candid and most importantly a
blast.
INTERVIEW
Currently....well before the
lockdown you had been singing and
performing weekly?
I have a residency, it’s my sixth year
here in Vegas. There’s a little place
called “Piero’s Italian Cuisine”, and it’s
where everyone gathers. The Mayor,
the DA, every celebrity that comes
to Vegas, it’s a very cool kind of edgy
place. The equivalent in New York
would be the Metropolitan Room,
or more like The Carlisle. There is a
lounge adjacent to the restaurant that
is called “Piero’s Place”, and I have a
marquis and every week and I do my
thing with my band. We have guest
artists come in but it’s me and Sonny
Charles, from The Checkmates (Black
Pearl). He’s just a crazy dynamic, wow
performer. He’s got that old R&B stuff...
and I do the Sinatra stuff. I show my
clips from the movies and I change
my dialogue every week because I
work there on a regular basis. I have a
fabulous trio who were Sinatra’s guys
and for the last two years I’ve had a
Liza impersonator. He walks in there
and everyone thinks it’s Liza. So we
did this every weekend and I kind of
missed that.