"No More Wire Hangers" - Scummy Mummy Joan Crawford

I have to admit that I was more than a little disappointed that the "no more wire hangers" quote is not about DIY abortions, and is actually about wire hangers used to hand clothes in a closet .
Any ways this post s about Joan Crawford as depicted by her adoptive daughter, Christina, in her memoir Mommie Dearest. Jesus! Can't a film star just be a shit parent in private like the rest of us? Whether or not Mommie Dearest was based on actual reality doesn't matter as that is how the world remembers Joan - a drunk slut with big eye brows - for some reason most people don't see that as a positive apparently? 

Christina claims that her mother liked vodka more than her kids - who dosen't?!!!! and only adopted her 4 kids for publicity, that is just outrageous, as if a celebrity would ever do that. Christina furthers by accounting for her mother's sluttery; apparently Joan had a revolving door in her bedroom that wasn't gender specific. Well Joan was too drunk to remember who these men and women were so it's  good thing that Christian wrote that shit down! 

 The more I am writing the more I am wishing that Joan Crawford was my mother, actually the more I am writing this the more I am thinking that that is a total possibility and would explain a whole lot. 

This post has morphed quite quickly from a scummy mummy post into a shitty kiddie post - Christina didn't just fuck things up for Joan, Faye Dunnaway, who played Joan in the film version, also claims that the role ruined her career. Fuck you Christina, I liked Faye Dunneway and wish she had been in more films. 

The scouse brows, the wire hangers, the violent, cometitive, image-obsession, the bucket list of random men she just HAD to screw before it was too late, and the daughter-annihilating scenery chewing hissy fits may have cemented Joan as a scummy mommy in the eyes of reality, social services, and every after school TV movie ever made in the early 90's - on this blog we remember Christina Crawford as a shitty kiddie. 

****edit**** I have just been reminded reminded by guest blogger Goodies of the "bathroom comet beat down scene" - Goodies points out that no one punished their kids like that anymore. I think that's because people don't spend enough time with there kids these days, Joan is right there down on the floor with Christina scrubbing the shit out of the bathroom floor.