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...reason for all the interest is that Mommie is the late Joan Crawford, one of the great movie stars of the '30s and '40s, and, if the book is to be believed, also one of the worst parents of all time, a female Jekyll and Hyde capable of the most monstrous cruelty...
...Paramount has bought the movie rights for $300,000; Christina is getting $200,000 to write the screenplay; and her husband, David Koontz, who has produced mostly commercials up until now, is getting another large but undisclosed sum to produce the film. In more than 40 years in Hollywood, Joan herself never saw such a sudden avalanche of dollars...
...Joan adopted Christina in 1939, when she was only a few weeks old. Her infant brother, Christopher, was adopted four years later, and two younger sisters, Cathy and Cynthia, were added to the family in 1947. Various husbands and lovers wandered in and out, but none of the children ever had anyone who could pass as a father...
...first few years of Christina's life, up until the age of five or six, she says, Joan was a warm, loving mother. After that, or about the time Christina began to have an identity and a mind of her own, Joan became a tyrant, and her 22-room Brentwood house a gilded Gulag. Suddenly, spurred on by alcohol, Joan would be seized by fits of madness and would storm through the house, screaming obscenities...
...Camelot again, if only for a few sunny days. "Now at last Jack has come back to Harvard," said Senator Ted Kennedy as his wife Joan wiped away a tear. Jackie Onassis and her children Caroline and John were also present at the dedication of the new $12 million building housing the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The school, which applies to government problems the case-study method pioneered by Harvard Business School, will be, said Ted, "a bridge between the academy and the world of politics." It will also be a living memorial to J.F.K. Said...