Thank you - what a great way to start my day!
Dunn’s essay on Palin and his comparison to Maureen O’Hara
is excellent and so easily visualized - his portrait of the actress - sharing of facial features and hair coloring.
While these similarities are easily presented for us to see, I agree it is the inner being, the real woman within, which rings true and when holding up the sad raging Parker, it expresses how failed she now is and cannot allow herself to praise another woman who is far more the ‘female’ and talented than she could ever be.
Parker has been skating on old, borrowed, tattered New York acceptance - the in crowd who need desperate daily doses of mirror image for assurance when as members of the public, we are now witnesses to the falsehood of members of the crumbling society incorrectly entitled the press.
Fairweather fellows they are - who lack the depth to plunge into the honest substance of a candidate, because in so doing on their solo journey of discovery, they may find their own insignificant reality.
It would not be a pleasant trip.
Most kids today would only recognize the archetype as Jane Seymour in “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman”