None of the adulation, though, quieted a deep insecurity that Nicholas Gage, author of Greek Fire, a new biography of Callas and Onassis, says began with an unstable mother who alternately criticized Callas and cadged money from her. A fed-up Callas finally told her mother to get a job or, failing that, “jump out of the window or drown yourself,” TIME once reported. (Christina Cheakalos, Auction: Diva’s Delight, People, 12/4/2000, p. 131.)
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