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Liz's expectations of her father

posted 12 years ago by phkasenetz
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Liz really bothered me this episode, specifically regarding how she feels about her father. She is clearly proud of him and has obviously used his success to ingratiate herself into the art world (I.e., I'm not sure why else Eli Klein would have hired her.) She goes off on a ridiculous diatribe to Maggie about how her father has pioneered the Miami art scene... And yet she clearly has no respect for his obligations to that scene.

Liz flies into Miami for Art Basel- it's not as though she is visiting Miami specifically to see her dad. There are 51 other weeks during the year to do that. She goes to Miami because it is one of the most important weeks of the year for art... And then she expects her dad to drop everything the Saturday night of one of the most important weeks for him and his career. If he is so highly regarded in the gallery world, wouldn't she understand that of course he would be completely booked that weekend? I think it's so bratty and selfish of her to waltz in and expect him to uproot one of the more important weekends for him and his career. It's like asking your daddy, the President, to drop everything during the White House Correspondents dinner weekend, to have dinner with you that Saturday because you let him know last minute that you're in town for the event. What a selfish and ungrateful girl.

And don't even get me started about her frustrations with Chantal and Claudia showing up "uninvited" to an event "open to the public during this time of year."

[–] Gordon_Gartrelle 12 years ago

Liz is one of those people who puts herself in $hitty situations so then she can say she is not wanted.

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[–] the_a_buser 12 years ago

I will say that it's hard to judge if Amy's dad is really distant, because we only see snippets of him and we only hear Liz' side of the story. It may well be that her father's demeanor is being uncomfortable on camera, and it's also possible that Liz exaggerates her father's behavior to stir up drama or to present herself as the victim. And it may not even be on Liz, she may be coached by Bravo producers to exaggerate or focus on issues with her father for the show. We don't know from this show what the truth is. Liz' father was interviewed in an article just before the show launched discussing his art collection, and the first thing he talked about was his love and affection for his children and being there for them.

He may be wrong, she may be right. She may be wrong, he may be right. The truth might be somewhere in the middle where neither one has acted in the best possible way. But I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from a reality show where only one viewpoint is really shown.

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[–] LumiereFactory 12 years ago

Liz's dad's career isn't art. Collecting art is literally his hobby. I don't think it was wrong of her to expect her father to take an hour or two out of his week to spend time with his daughter.

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