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I think there are always different times in your life when you go, “Oh, god. Meryl Streep is recognizable. It’s sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it’s sacrificing your basic comforts.

BARR: Why would you do that?

BERNHARD: People do it all the time, because they want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted.

I don’t know. That’s what I think is so fiercely brave. . “I was deeply in love with Sandra,” she writes, “in a way I’d never experienced before.”

Berhnard introduced Velasquez to the downtown New York social scene and a young designer named Isaac, who asked her to walk in his next show.

“I thought to myself, ‘I guess I can do this guy a favor,’ ” she writes.

I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. Even Bernhard’s flirtations with the mainstream have been surrounded by a kind of insurgent energy. The last person to leave is the beautiful Black model who has appeared as both object of desire and alter-ego throughout the film; she has written the words “F*ck Sandra Bernhard” on the table with lipstick.

Without You I’m Nothing has been described by The Creative Independent as “one of the greatest cultural documents of its time” (2016/2021).

. How many 6- or 7-year-old kids do that? . It was another gay-comedy situation—drag queens were going on, all these crazy people were going on—and I just decided to totally improvise and be crazy. It seems like we’ve taken a lot of steps back with where the Republican Party is at and how they’ve pulled us down.

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BARR: I think they look at anybody with an opinion as baggage.

BERNHARD: Well, it’s just too much. So my trainer at the time, my friend Luis, who is from Brazil—he wasn’t even Jewish, but he had been studying with Ruthie and Moshe [Rosenberg], and he was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday.

I started when I was 19 in L.A., and the first night I got up was at the Ye Little Club in Beverly Hills.

BARR: Did you move to L.A. to do stand-up?

BERNHARD: Well, I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn’t want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home.

Wade, Sandra Bernhard was heated. 

In the middle of touring her prophetic “Bern it Down” show, the performer, actress, singer, and author knew there was no time for diplomacy with so many lives on the line. 

The moment had arrived to simply put a match to the old way of doing things—politicians legislating women’s bodies and the LGBTQ+ community’s right to exist—and start from scratch. 

Once the smoke cleared and her initial fury cooled, Bernhard set to work on a more attainable goal—solving these crises within the confines of our existing political system. 

She is also imagining an idyllic future once this whole mess is behind us in her latest show, “A Spring Affair,” hitting Feinstein’s at The Nikko this week (Thu/22 to Sat/ 24).

Also during this time, as she recently told Howard Stern, she turned down the role of Miranda on Sex and the City, which ultimately went to Cynthia Nixon, because she thought the script was bad.

In one sense, whatever success Bernhard has achieved is largely the result of her willingness to take on lofty targets and make bold creative moves—not to mention her prodigious talent.

She described it as “rock-and-roll meets the theater with elements of performance art, cabaret, and standup comedy” (in Holden, 1988). In the early-’90s she appeared in Playboy, and her 1997 stage show I’m Still Here .

He said, “Bernhard, never let them see you cry.