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Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today comes from Carolyn See, and contains one of the most unlikely transitions we've seen so far. You'll think you know where it's going, but you'll be wrong:
Some years ago, in a very fancy Los Angeles seaside restaurant, I ordered the signature lobster and avocado salad. About halfway through lunch, an enormous fly struggled out from the damp jungle of arugula and frisee. I let out an unladylike "Eeek," and a waiter came over. "He just flew in, right?" "No," I answered hotly. "Look where he's been!" It was true, the fly was drenched, half-drowned in Thousand Island. Only later did I think of it from the fly's point of view, lost in gooey crags of avocado, gluey from unidentified pink stuff. Think of me now as that fly, staggering out from one of the ickiest film biographies I've ever read.
Hollywood Babble-On [WaPo]
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Too bad they went with such a generic headline. Presumably, "Tossing Joan Crawford's Salad" was thrown out at the last minute.
Next time order the corn dog.
I'll sum up the article in case you don't feel like reading it: Joan Crawford was a huge fruit fly, and since everyone in Hollywood was gay, bisexual, or married to a gay, life was one big caberet. And she locked her kids in the closet. All of this is somehow insulting to gay men. Also Carolyn See needs a shower.
There, I saved you ten minutes. You're welcome!
of joan crawford: "When she was young, he writes, 'it was widely known that she had crabs due to her hatred of bathing.'"
hmm, i bathe all the time, but got them anyway... and it took more than a bath to get rid of them.
See, this is the problem with handing out ironic awards: eventually, some poor soul desperate for attention will start campaigning for it, and pretty soon everything looks like a fly stuck in the pubic hair of an avocado.
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