I’ve been rattling around this part of the world for a long time, probably longer than some of you (dear readers) have been alive. During that time I took some things as a matter of course, and other things just stuck in my tiny mind. Things I couldn’t openly talk about, some of it about people I knew, or knew of…
Anne was somewhat small and bespectacled… Her gamine appearance tended to put people subconsciously at ease. She wasn’t in any way challenging: she listened; she kept confidences; people told her the most extraordinary things and she would file their secrets away.“Still waters,” her Uncle Manny would say. Later, she would twist the secrets into unrecognizable forms and it came out as “spare, lapidary prose, highlighting the hypocrisy, pain and political unease of the 21st century,” that’s right—her very low-paying area of expertise was fiction—and she was about to reenter Papa’s bailiwick, Hollywood. Or, as her half- sister Natalie was fond of saying, “Nepotism central.”
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Fame and money can play unholy tricks, or they can refine one’s character, and how it’s dealt with really does depend on the people around you, because in the end, we are all defined by our relationships…