The story is true that the people who worked for and around Diana Ross were not allowed to look directly at her, according to J Randy Taraborelli’s new bi-oh! Diana Ross, coming in September – although he attacked her once before, back in ’89, in his Call Her Miss Ross: The Unauthorized Biography of Diana Ross. But we digress. Not being allowed to look at her got to the point where if it was necessary to announce Ross’ arrival into a room, one only had to revert to the shorthand, “Avert your eyes.” Miss Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle) also had her daughter Tracee, nine at the time, keep track of her mother’s employee’s wrongdoings in a notebook and then report back to Mommie severest. But the Diana Ross story that had us snorting milk out of our nose was the one about her clubbing an airline worker on the head with a hatbox, not knowing it contained a small dog. An easy mistake to make, we suppose, if you’re oblivious. (NY Daily News)