A rose colored glasses piece, but if she’s viewed with a more realistic lens: addicted to alcohol and substances, whorish, screwed/had affairs with several married men, divorced, not great with her money.
As the myth of Ganymede points out, being beautiful is not always the gift it is made out to be.
Everybody’s flawed, especially artists.
Unless you’re in their personal orbit, their messy lives are beside the point.
It’s the art. It’s the dream that speaks to our dreams.
She was average pretty off screen, had been pushed around, passed around, kicked around. It all buffed out real good when they applied the makeup and put her in front of a camera.
Then, she became a work of art.