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Under D, Auden describes a dream in which his appendix is to be removed. Instead, the doctor cuts off "the arm of an old lady who was going to do me an injury." Mommy dearest? Of course, and Edel does not fail to evoke the emasculating female. How much weight Auden, a homosexual, gave to primal imagery is open to question. An artist must care more about what he makes than what he is. Auden put it right when he told a friend, "I am a poet first and a queen second...
...Schickel's review of Mommie Dearest [Sept. 21] stands as tragic testimony to one of the most serious obstacles to recognizing the extent of child abuse in our country, namely, that it's really no big deal for parents to haul off at their children now and then...
...room watching Christina get yelled at. A history of Joan's career might have been worthwhile; she was an interesting character. Her daughter is not. But since Christina wrote the book, she's what we get. The other Crawford child, Christopher, is something of a non-character in Mommie Dearest. He appears briefly in the beginning as a little kid, only to disappear until his mother's funeral...
...remarkable. And the make-up artists deserve credit, too, for Dunaway looks as well as acts the part. Both Diana Scarwid and Mara Hobel, who play Christina as a child and as an adult, respectively, turn in good performances. There is no problem with the acting in Mommie Dearest. The flaw is the absolute lack of substance in the script and the plot...
...only further confused. The relationship between Christina and Joan is shown through a series of vignettes which take place over a span of 30 years, but these scenes are only loosely strung together. They argue here, they argue there, time passes and no conclusions are reached. Mommie Dearest, while attempting to pass itself off as a serious documentary, is little more than a limp soap opera...