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This isn't social work...it's Show Business

Posted by:	Jax 01:31 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	re: What an unpleasant collection of anecdotes. - shadowlight 09:37 am EDT 08/15/14

There are similar stories about everyone from Sinatra to Garland. Lauren Bacall was a star for 70 years -- in itself a jaw dropping achievement -- because she instinctively knew how to play her tough girl persona, from a seductress ("To Have and Have Not") to a diva ("Applause") to a grand dame ("Murder on the Orient Express"). Audiences always want their stars to be bigger than life, and Bacall managed to be a bit stronger, a bit tarter than any of her rivals (Alexis Smith, for example.) And please don't say "nothing excuses bad manners." In show business success has always trumped good behavior. As Joan Crawford is reputed to have said, "If you want the girl next door, go next door."

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