I represented the Sennheiser company for 20 years. We had a shoot with Barbra Streisand and I forgot the reason why but she insisted on doing it in her backyard which was incredibly spectacular.
When we wanted to start the sound check, we handed her her microphone and she said, "what's this?" Dripping with attitude.
"Well miss Streisand that's your microphone for today".
"That's NOT my microphone; my microphone is silver."
"we cannot use silver because the sun will cause trails and glare from the reflections from the microphone. If we were shooting indoors, we would have more control over this. We can enhance the lighting by using reflectors, but that would exacerbate the issue we really need you to use that black matte microphone"
She took the black mic and smashed it to bits in a rage! our microphone guy took out his case, and there was a ton of microphones there but no black ones. I believe she was in the Santa Barbara area and the closest Black Sennheiser microphone was at our facility in Los Angeles. One of the guys rode up on his motorcycle. We asked him to hurry up and get the other black mic because the sun would be setting and that changes the color temperature.
so he rode his ass off, risking life, limb, and the cops, and the producer had to pay everybody by the hour—-standing around and waiting for the microphone to show up—-around four hours.
I left and I can't lie: I can't remember what the final outcome was. I'm certain that I must've asked, but I have arterial sclerosis in my small capillaries in my brain and that has affected my memory so much. All I know is she was so nasty. I could only think "I'm glad I'm not married to that bitch."
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