Superdiva

In a post back on 4/25 I pondered the meanings of the word diva. Since then I have worried about the term for the male version of a diva. Finally, after the Crossroads Guitar Festival, I was feeling comfortable that a male diva is a "guitar god". That supports the use of "diva" as a positive term. Now I have support for the term as a negative term, and for the male version, too!

Dallas Morning News, 6/19/04 pg. 3A

"Actor Russell Crowe has now been labeled a "superdiva" after furiously fencing off his entire trailer during shooting on his upcoming boxing movie in Toronto, IMDb.com reports. The famed bad boy stunned the cast and crew at the shooting of The Cinderella Man--in which the star plays celebrated pugilist Jim Braddock--by blocking people out of his dressing room with black curtains, forbidding the crew to use his gym and giving no warning when he chose not to turn up on the set.