If it was me and some woman came up behind me at my husband's funeral and said "Don't you cry dearie, he wasn't so much!" I wouldn't have screamed, I would have turned around and slapped the fire out of her.
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shareThey did a great job showing the insensitivity of Vicki's own so-called fans. It's those kinds of things that make Hollywood sound like such a cutthroat place. The dirty little secret is it's not just Hollywood that's like that.
Today, because of social media, one need not be in show business or even famous to suffer the same kinds of attacks. Some people seem all too eager to attack others wherever they may find them but they seldom do it as themselves. They hide in mobs or behind screens where none of them can be singularly identified.
The same people that are quick to build someone up and put them on a pedestal are the same ones who will just as quickly tear them down and rip them to shreds. It's almost as if they build them up in order to later tear them down. It's vicious and it's something that has probably existed as long as there have been people on earth.
As much as this movie says about someone like Norman Maines it also shines a light on all of us; especially those people who play a role in someone's demise. In the movie, Libby worked hard to build Norman. As he says, it was his job but when it came time to kick the man who was already down on his luck that was done free of charge.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]