Comments to this video on YouTube are unkind. I like both these two people more by seeing it.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
If it weren't for pain I wouldn't know I'm alive.
Anderson Cooper and his mother are promoting a book about themselves that they wrote together. The book is called The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love and Loss. There is a companion HBO documentary. This video pushes my buttons, like five all at once but I flicked off my button control panel and ignored my impulse to offer Charlie Rose a discount on industrial kneepads and resisted my impulse to tell the This Morning interviewer to give back my stained glass window because those stem from my own shortcomings and none of those impulses are helpful. I stuck it out and I must say I have a newfound respect. Anderson has a really cool mum. And so did I. This video makes me appreciate my mum even more. All my friends knew my mum is the best.
Comments to this video on YouTube are unkind. I like both these two people more by seeing it.
Comments to this video on YouTube are unkind. I like both these two people more by seeing it.
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Her only contribution to society were her designer jeans back in the late 70's. One and done, oh and the fact that she produced this steaming pile of LGBT offal.
She needn't have any lasting contribution at all. Or even transient ones. Notice she defers to Anderson to answer, "Now explain" why she took him to Studio 54. She had some kind of business there. Some kind of transient contribution. Anderson is lucky his mum is this alert. I'm imagining she did and does things we don't know about that don't have that great an impact. I have no idea what. A suggested video I didn't care to watch said that Anderson is not getting any of her 200 million inheritance. That means I suppose she's doing something else with it. I don't know. It made me think of my own mum delivering turkeys in snow for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of work for her while not that huge a contribution. That's just one of her projects. And she was always doing things like that. The stories I can tell. They're insane. Her resources were not that great but her heart was fully in it. This video reminded me of all that.
Shorter Cooper: "I'm proud of the poor side of my family - the rich side of my family makes me sick. Vote HIllary!"
We have no internet. Hopefully it will be back by tomorrow morning. Sharing with you via my phone.
I saw the documentary on HBO. It was excellent. Gloria kept replicating and, in some cases, inflicting the early trauma and abandonment she suffered as a child......,,Remember those lines about Daisy Buchanan. You can hear the soft rustle of money in her voice. And those lines about leaving a mess behind for others to clean up. Sometimes she left a mess, sometimes she was the mess, and sometimes the mess was left for her. Her life was certainly episodic and she survived a lot of tragic events, but I think a lot of the bad things and people just bounced off her. It pays to be self involved and not too tied up with the feelings of others.........I'm no judge of such things, but her art work is extremely moving. She uses bright colors and light strokes to create such sad pictures. As an artist, she's the real deal........Shes also quite adept with a make up brush. She's definitely the best looking ninety two year old woman on the face of the earth.
Before there was reality TV, before there we were blogs, and even before there was social media & et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, there was true unfettered Press (not to mention the long-suffering yet still robustly surviving radio), and make no mistake about it. Hay was made from dawn to dusk over, of and with Gloria, long before she had any control, at all, at all, over any of that. She went on to survive. She went on to create a business, at least of sorts and more. In her life, she had a kid who, unlike herself, could not find a way to survive for himself. In her life, she had a kid who survived and thrived (and, not just as an aside, is able to get outside his own skin enough to understand others: I've often wondered over many, many, many years, now, if that very particular gift of a rare ability is why Anderson Cooper's managed to transcend the very real curses of the threads that led to his very existence on earth).
Mixed bag of goods, all of that, wouldn't you agree? Make no mistake: I'm not a fangirl of Gloria Vanderbilt nor a fangirl of Anderson Cooper. I am, though, getting ever less patient with ... well, the evermore dishonestly impatient.
It's always amazing to hear that marbles in the mouth way old money talks.
It's always amazing to hear that blurting rough way old beneficiaries of a system benefiting themselves talk.
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