Post by Doc on Apr 24, 2017 0:50:40 GMT -5
So I watched the FX mini-series, "Feud; Bette Davis and Joan Crawford." I watched all 8 episodes completely; it ended tonight. I wept over some of the scenes.
Yes I can be a whining crybaby when I watch a soap opera, but this was more. It was more than a soap opera; it succeeded in giving a fair account of all the things
that transpired between Davis and Crawford thru-out their careers, especially their "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" time and beyond. The show's creator and producer,
Ryan Murphy, was thorough and I believe, fair in his creation of this tale. Most of the details I had heard or read about, but in the presentation, one begins to see the cause
of the so - called feud, why it flared against Ms. Crawford so badly, how it all ended.
So much of show business is likely to generate feuds like this, and feuds which, on the right mellow evening sometime down the pike, would lead the participants
in the"feud" to want to end it, to ask forgiveness, to swear friendship and kindness from then on, if only it could be, if only it could be.....
I've been in a couple of those myself, though I am not famous (nor wish to be) and neither was my, uhm, partner in the situation.....
But it made me feel great empathy for Bette, especially for Joan, for Jack Warner, Hedda Hopper, and on and on: we humans are so small, weak, and delicate, really,
we are not supreme gods of mayhem or mischief (thought we are FULL of mischief) but we are not generally capable of supreme
evil/'hatred/viciousness...... we feel hate for a time and then we regret it...we feel bitchiness and competitiveness for a decade or two, maybe three, and then our bodies
feel exhausted for having hosted such ill will for so long, it weakens us further, we want to recant, we ant to make it all right and good, we want to have a vacation from
our resentments and smile on our old enemy and make it all go away; give them solace and take for ourselves peace and a kind of "quietness" of spirit where we can rest
and sleep and go on and do good for our friends and neighbors.......... was it the world that "made us bad", was it an early insecurity that drove us to conflict?
Was it an ill temper we got from mother or father or Aunt Louise? Were we "the bad seed" or were we victims of our own ambition and covetousness? I dunno......
I dunno but most of us fall victim to it, to this thing, to ourselves........ May there be peace on Earth soon.....
Yes I can be a whining crybaby when I watch a soap opera, but this was more. It was more than a soap opera; it succeeded in giving a fair account of all the things
that transpired between Davis and Crawford thru-out their careers, especially their "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" time and beyond. The show's creator and producer,
Ryan Murphy, was thorough and I believe, fair in his creation of this tale. Most of the details I had heard or read about, but in the presentation, one begins to see the cause
of the so - called feud, why it flared against Ms. Crawford so badly, how it all ended.
So much of show business is likely to generate feuds like this, and feuds which, on the right mellow evening sometime down the pike, would lead the participants
in the"feud" to want to end it, to ask forgiveness, to swear friendship and kindness from then on, if only it could be, if only it could be.....
I've been in a couple of those myself, though I am not famous (nor wish to be) and neither was my, uhm, partner in the situation.....
But it made me feel great empathy for Bette, especially for Joan, for Jack Warner, Hedda Hopper, and on and on: we humans are so small, weak, and delicate, really,
we are not supreme gods of mayhem or mischief (thought we are FULL of mischief) but we are not generally capable of supreme
evil/'hatred/viciousness...... we feel hate for a time and then we regret it...we feel bitchiness and competitiveness for a decade or two, maybe three, and then our bodies
feel exhausted for having hosted such ill will for so long, it weakens us further, we want to recant, we ant to make it all right and good, we want to have a vacation from
our resentments and smile on our old enemy and make it all go away; give them solace and take for ourselves peace and a kind of "quietness" of spirit where we can rest
and sleep and go on and do good for our friends and neighbors.......... was it the world that "made us bad", was it an early insecurity that drove us to conflict?
Was it an ill temper we got from mother or father or Aunt Louise? Were we "the bad seed" or were we victims of our own ambition and covetousness? I dunno......
I dunno but most of us fall victim to it, to this thing, to ourselves........ May there be peace on Earth soon.....