Word: crawford
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Other books by women authors such as "Mommie Dearest," stories of actress Joan Crawford by her daughter Christina Crawford, and "Moments of Being," unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolfe, seem to be popular with college-age readers, Peter Barkley, a short-order buyer at Words Worth, said last week...
...since Lizzie Borden gave her mother 40 whacks has a daughter wreaked such vengeance on her mother. But instead of using an ax as a weapon, Christina Crawford has wielded a pen?in a book, Mommie Dearest, that is the publishing gossip sensation of the fall season...
...reason for all the interest is that Mommie is the late Joan Crawford, one of the great movie stars of the '30s and '40s, and, if the book is to be believed, also one of the worst parents of all time, a female Jekyll and Hyde capable of the most monstrous cruelty...
...Bessie Crawford, 90: "The Good Book says people are getting weaker, and you can see that right here. The young ones learn mischief from television, and now all they think about is going out at night. They do just as they please and figure things will take care of themselves. It'll come back to them...
...heyday of Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck, Hollywood beguiled audiences with sentimental tales of working-class women who dreamed of escape to a better life. These days the genre lives on, but in a much revised form. Instead of women, the protagonists of these films are now men, young Italian studs who break out of ethnic urban ghettos to become Somebodies. It's a formula that has already produced a pair of smash movies, Rocky and Saturday Night Fever, as well as new stars to go with them. Bloodbrothers is the latest entry in this sweepstakes...