"No Wire Hangers Ever!"

Hey, does anyone remember the 1980s movie _Mommie Dearest_, starring Faye Dunaway? It was the film version of the autobiography of the adopted daughter of Joan Crawford. Apparently Crawford alternately beat the hell out of her 2 adopted kids and neglected them. In her will she left them both nothing saying "They know why." (!!!)

The scene that everybody remembers from the movie was when Crawford saw that little Christina was using wire coat hangers for her expensive clothes, rather than padded coat hangers, and began whipping her mercilessly with the wire hanger. Every child of the 80s who had cable remembers that scene and Crawford's shrieking during the beating. Chilling! Crawford became the universal poster woman for bad parenting.

Vanity Fair just recently did an article interviewing people who knew the family way back when. Some say the movie is a total exaggeration written by greedy, ungrateful children. Some say it's right on the money, and that Crawford was crazy and violent.

ANYHOO, short story long, Diana Scarwid (the woman who played teenage & adult Christina) plays "The Sheriff" on Lost.

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