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I've written about the cruelty casually visited on children daily on TV reality shows (like Maury Povitch). I've written about celebrity biographies that are amazing in the degree to which women tolerate abuse (like Pattie Boyd). A new biography combines the two in equal amounts. Read More
Interesting
Thanks for this. I wouldn't read the book, but I feel I've got the good parts for free. One quibble: you write, "Allegra's mother, Ricki Soma - a beautiful, talented woman, wife to John Huston - died when Allegra was 4, having failed to establish a career or a successful marriage (she and Huston had an "arrangement," where each took other lovers)."
Are your readers to take it that a successful marriage cannot, by definition, include such "arrangements?" If so, boy have I got a book for you to read!
Seriously, do you know about the psychological mind-f**k that is Jack Nicolson's childhood?
It wasn't fun
Huston was not good mate material: "He was unfaithful, egocentric, impatient, judgmental, cuttingly sarcastic, and a gambler." Cici was his last wife -- a marriage that didn't last long, and which left her hating him. He also beat Allegra's mother. They lived apart (Allegra wasn't actually Huston's blood, although he treated - and ignored - her like his real children).
In place of her marriage, "Mum" had a series of unstatisfying affairs: "being in love is a painful maladay for me. . . a sickness which I shall get over, as indeed, I have before" although she welcomed her affairs as "a [temporary] state of blessedness - all the anguish worthwhile for the heightened sensitivity." Some reckoned her death in a higway accident driving alone to be a suicide.
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