Comments on: That woman

By: Beth Madron

Beth Madron — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:42:28 +0000

More Ava, Bette, Joan and Barb Stanwyck Please!!!! TCM. These were strong women. Even unpopular or little know about movies. I love watching movies with these women. Especially Ava, a girl from tobacco road to hollywood who ended up living in Spain and England. Who would have every thought that her life would have ended up like that. And married to Mickey Rooney,Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra to boot! Pals with Ernest Hemingway and riding a bull drunk on absynth in Spain. What a way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though she died at 68 she had an incredible life. She was THe Barefoot Contessa!

By: Z-Ghost

Z-Ghost — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:13:14 +0000

Very interesting.

By: RHS

RHS — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:41:48 +0000

One of the strengths of Longford to me was that it addresses to some degree the disconnect we often have between our intentions and our actions. More than ever before, we live in a mindset of "this is what I do, not who I am" and I think that was a rationalization Myra Hindley chose to live with in her 37 years in prison. We are all potentially corruptible and I do think that women-- especially women of past eras-- were unduly influenced by men because that's how they were socialized; to be a single woman was to be an incomplete entity and a Type A personality such as Ian Brady must have seemed like a ticket out of the drudgery of the counsel flats. I have no doubt that the evil in which Myra Hindley participated was of Ian Brady's design... and that Myra Hindley was a blank slate on which Brady was able to paint in very broad strokes.As a society trying to impose order on disorder, however, I think we have to be harsh in our punishment of crimes such as the Moors Murders; to paraphrase Jodie Foster in her acceptance speech from The Accused, to understand is not to condone. I think our mistake as a society is in trying to pass off these killers as monsters. Clearly, their number is far greater than that classification suggests.

By: DRM

DRM — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:29:01 +0000

I have to admit to getting awfully tired of these women who blame everything they did on the men in their lives. Karla Homolka got a light sentence thanks to claims of abuse by Bernardo and the stupidity of the prosecutors and a defense attorney. The videos show her an enthusiastic participant in the perversion and ultimate deaths of two young women. Three if you count her own younger sister. Right now a 13 year old girl is busy blaming her older boyfriend for the murders of her parents and 8 year old brother. The fact the testimony of friends has shown her as the instigator of the murders may not cancel out the carefully prepared image the defence has created for her and the ridiculous notion that women are somehow incapable of violence or evil.