Time was in Katharine Hepburn's generation that well-bred girls (Cecil Beaton will forever color our view of this egotist) did not go into movies. Now that's all they want to do leaving little room for those not born into a dynasty. A few driven working class girls make it but Hollywood is sewn up now, like so much of the free world. The Myth of Success and innane striving that we still teach the American untermenschen is cruel.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
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