• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everyone remembers her as Chrissy Snow, but she also wrote a book (late 80s, early 90s?) about growing up with alcoholic parents, landing in Hollywood, having a baby very young and very alone, and finally learning to adult and have primary relationships as a person who never really saw how it was supposed to be done. Reading it was painful and raw and eye-opening.

    I didn’t follow her career after the 70s but I have thought of that book off and on throughout the years: it taught me some things I never knew myself, not least that it’s very easy to judge.

    She was a good soul, smart and strong, and a vastly deeper human being than the ones she tended to portray on screen. I think she made the world a better place for being in it. May her memory be a blessing.