Wow, this thread is almost four years old! well, I'm Aussie and my late dad was a musician who worked with a few famous showbiz and Hollywood types when they toured Oz and here's his take (to the best of my memory) on what he thought of them...
Ethel Merman - toured Oz in the 60's and he said she was awful in every way possible that a person could be.
Tony Martin - singer/actor of the 30s and 40's (husband of dancer Cyd Charisse....very nice bloke who enjoyed a drink with the band muso's after rehearsals.
Nat King Cole - toured Oz in the early 60s....a real pro an down to earth but he was not very well, in the early stages of the cancer that would kill him. Natalie Cole was only a teen and she sat in on the rehearsals, clearly very close to her dad despite what she claimed later on.
Frank Sinatra - dads favourite because he always acknowledged his backing muso's after rehearsals and spoke to them personally. Dad said he was a genuinely nice and easy going person, and when dad told him I was only a toddler he told dad to spend as much time with me as possible as 'kids grow up so quickly'. Nancy was a young girl at the time and mum sat behind her at the show, had a row of bodyguards on either side of her. Dad said he came across as very much a fond dad.
Shirley Bassey - diva, diva, diva...very hard on the band muso's if they weren't up to her standards. He saw her reduce a young drummer to tears, sacked him on the spot. He said every gesture she does during a song is choreographed to the note.
I met Mel Gibson several times before he did Mad Max and lived in Sydney, went to this Lutheran orthodox church, asked my friends sister out on a date and she turned him down...he gets his oddness from his father.