CYNDI LAUPER: DOING THAT PRIMITIVE THING

She would have been born in the back of a New York taxi if they hadn’t crossed her mother’s legs and stuffed her back in ’til the hospital. That was 33 years ago; Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper has made a point of never being early for anything since! She’s a couple of hours late for our interview—though there are excuses; since “True Colors,” the first single from her second album of the same name, has been doing a Sir Edmund Hillary up just about every pop chart in the world they’ve kept her busy...so busy in London that I had to fly to Paris to talk to her. But there’s plenty to do to pass the time, like being searched and searched again by the guard at the Paris Intercontinental who’s convinced the tape recorder is a bomb, or musing that there can be no just God who gave those cheekbones '.to Parisians...