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shadowkat1. Apparently this happened yesterday:
Supermoon combined with Solar Eclispe - Astronomical Event
No, we didn't see it here - on account of a snow storm.
But it's very pretty this morning, blue sky, tweeting birds, snow encased trees.
2. Watching a fascinating documentary on Judy Garland, via American Masters on PBS. The focus is on how the studio, her family, and managers continuous criticism of her looks and demeanor made it difficult for her to ever truly see who she was or how truly beautiful she was.
The studio called her an ugly fat hunchback monster. She wasn't allowed to grow up, and had to fight to get married, to have a child, and to do adult roles.
It's interesting, here's this female singer and actress - who was so talented and charismatic that when she was on the screen, you didn't see anyone else. There's a scene, where she shares the screen with Lana Turner, but she's singing, and Lana fades from the screen. But the studio told her otherwise - pushing a societal view of beauty that was prided itself on surface beauty - that doesn't hold up with time. And installing in Judy at a very young age - a critical body image that plagued her to her death.
Time tells a different story than the studio told Judy...as did the screen.
Supermoon combined with Solar Eclispe - Astronomical Event
No, we didn't see it here - on account of a snow storm.
But it's very pretty this morning, blue sky, tweeting birds, snow encased trees.
2. Watching a fascinating documentary on Judy Garland, via American Masters on PBS. The focus is on how the studio, her family, and managers continuous criticism of her looks and demeanor made it difficult for her to ever truly see who she was or how truly beautiful she was.
The studio called her an ugly fat hunchback monster. She wasn't allowed to grow up, and had to fight to get married, to have a child, and to do adult roles.
It's interesting, here's this female singer and actress - who was so talented and charismatic that when she was on the screen, you didn't see anyone else. There's a scene, where she shares the screen with Lana Turner, but she's singing, and Lana fades from the screen. But the studio told her otherwise - pushing a societal view of beauty that was prided itself on surface beauty - that doesn't hold up with time. And installing in Judy at a very young age - a critical body image that plagued her to her death.
Time tells a different story than the studio told Judy...as did the screen.
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Date: 2015-03-21 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-21 03:57 pm (UTC)The documentary is not kind to CBS, the movie industry, or the various men in Judy's life. Or shows them in an increasingly negative light. But having seen her story told elsewhere, I think it was far more complicated than that. Judy Garland was a complicated person - who craved something from her audience and those around her that really she could have only found within herself. A lost soul in various ways.
What struck me, watching it, is here is a woman who never truly loved herself or saw herself as talented or beautiful (according to the documentary and the various snippets of interviews and taped records archived), but was insanely talented and beautiful to the vast majority of those who saw her work. Which goes to show you - you have to find your value inside yourself - not out there.
She was a star. But died at the age of 47 from a pill overdose. And in debt. Even though she'd made millions in her lifetime, was insanely successful on stage, on screen, and had three children, and various love affairs.
Her career was over in her late 30s, early 40s. She rose to fame quick and burned out fast. Never quite achieving happiness, although from our societal and marketing standards - she appeared to have all the trappings of it: family, fame, fortune, talent, wealth, friends, success...
But since she couldn't love herself or like herself, it didn't matter.