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Originally posted by Soulful Soror:
I think this month must have been her birthday or anniversary of her death or something b/c there's been mad documentaries & remembrances of her life... 
And, they all say the same thing..."oh, she had an innocence about her" , "she was IN LOVE with JFK, his brother, Joe Dimaggio, and every Tom, Dick, & Harry at the time"...or, that's what they CALLED it, apparently, when you slept around (in those days)  .
I mean, don't get me wrong, her childhood may NOT have been the best & she died a sad, lonely, & unnatural death...but, dag...she was living FOUL (I mean, she REALLY played herself at JFK's birthday party).
What you dish out is almost ALWAYS guaranteed to come back to you! And, she had the nerve to want to be taken seriously as an actress....ACK!
Sorry...I had to vent...cuz she didn't add one iota to the betterment of the world (other than T&A, as many men will argue) ...
Why don't they go on & on about Paul Robeson?? Sheeeesh!
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she may have been living "foul" but it was only because she was lost...the entertainment industry can be very brutal...they take an "innocent" country girl and make her into a sex bomb and with no direction she is just supposed to be the epitome of "rightness"? don't think so...i think she probably wanted to be taken seriously as a human being...not as an actress...sometimes people forget that celebrities are still human...and hurt just the same as you...only they have to do it publicly...she added betterment to MY life...a black woman...just as did dorothy, billy, and phyllis...in seeing her misfortune...the path she took...i can avoid her pitfalls...and see in me the warning signs that have the potential to lead me down that same very sad and tragic path...people glamorize with no thought to the sad reality of her situation...they say she was a slut instead of she was searching for something she thought could be found in having multiple sex partners...she was a drunk and a druggy instead of she was trying to dull the pains of her reality...it is all very sad and tragic...her being white does not negate that fact...
why not check out this link...and then see if you can still be so quick to judge the dead...
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2318/
http://www.smiley.cy.net/stephan/phyllis.htm
[This message has been edited by SableCherub (edited June 18, 2001).]