Article: Sandra Bernhard drops the tough act, opts for multifaceted 'Plan B.

Byline: Chris Jones

Mar. 2--When the snarling Sandra Bernhard was last in Chicago--almost five years ago--the wide-mouthed rockstar-slash-alternative-comedian wasn't in the mood to suck down anybody's second-hand smoke. "You don't love me, you hate me," she told her audience at the Park West nightclub, in between kvetching, a dozen times or more, about the number of her alleged fans who insisted on lighting up and blowing smoke in her face. After her 2002 night aptly began with a cover of "I'm Holding Out for A Hero" (always a dodgy modus operandi in life and love), Bernhard exuded the aura of one severely disappointed. Neither Anne Heche nor Madonna had ...

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