the worst movie of the year. Unfortunately, it's not that good." Janet Maslin of The New York Times complimented Zadora, saying that she's "got spunk" while still being "the tiny centerpiece of a badly acted slovenly looking movie that isn't even much fun." On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 0% approval rating based on reviews from 12 critics. Zadora herself said that The Lonely Lady was "a real turkey, done very badly" and that she "knew it was bad all along." Despite being taken seriously by its director, it became a "camp classic, one of those movies that's so bad it's funny." She even attempted to prevent its release: "I wanted my husband to buy it, to buy the whole thing and hide it somewhere. That movie certainly didn't help my credibility problem." Robbins' reaction Harold Robbins said shortly after the film's release that he had not seen it, criticizing the casting of Pia Zadora, who, he claimed, "seem[ed] like a nice girl, but not my idea of the main character" and concluding that "the movie will be a bummer, everyone will lose money. Except me. I got six hundred thousand dollars before it opened." Robbins' then-assistant and future wife Jann Stapp wrote in her book Harold and Me that Robbins only saw a rough cut at Universal's screening room, telling her afterward that he slept during the projection, derided Zadora as "not an actress, she can't carry the picture," and summed up the production as "crap, I don't know what they did in Italy but it turned into shit." Awards The film was nominated for 11 Golden Raspberry Awards and won six: Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Musical Score, Worst Original Song ("The Way You Do It"), Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay. When questioned about the awards, Zadora stated, "I would have hated to be nominated and not won [sic]." It was also nominated for a Razzie as Worst Picture of the Decade, but lost to Mommie Dearest, and as Worst Drama of the Razzies' First 25 Years, but lost to Battlefield Earth. Zadora won the Worst New Star of the Decade for this film and Butterfly. She was also nominated for Worst Actress of the Century, but lost to Madonna. John J.B. Wilson included it in The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the most enjoyable bad movies ever. In its entry, he notes how being