Enero 9, 2013

"I couldn't take it anymore: 'Your father! Great! Genius! I always liked him!'"

"The idolization has got worse and worse since he died."
Ipinaskil ni Ann Althouse sa 5:09 PM
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13 komento:

mccullough ayon kay ...

Her half-sister started dating Roman Polanski when she was 15, so there might be something to this.

1/9/13, 5:14 PM
McTriumph ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
1/9/13, 5:23 PM
McTriumph ayon kay ...

Kinski was German, she's lucky he didn't rape her and then have her sauteed for dinner. Germans are world leaders in western kink cuisine.

1/9/13, 5:26 PM
tiger ayon kay ...

Done in one.

Came for the Natasha Kinski reference.

1/9/13, 5:28 PM
Baron Zemo ayon kay ...

This is not unusal to sell Movie or TV biographies. Allison Angrim who was Nellie on "Little House" as well as Mackenzie Phillips of "One Day at A Time" and Ashley Judd and others too numerous to mention.

Most of them survive and thrive. Mackenzie is happy with a new family and Ashley Judd still acts and stars in TV movies for "Lifetime" and of course Allison went to law school and moved to Wisconsin and started a blog.

So it can all work out ok in the end.

1/9/13, 5:38 PM
Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I love Klaus Kinski as an actor.

Check out "My Best Fiend," Herzog's documentary about him.

And "Aguirre the Wrath of God" -- one of my all time favorite films.

1/9/13, 5:43 PM
edutcher ayon kay ...

Daddy Dearest and 15 minutes or the real thing?

If real, that's a grim kisser to come at you out of the dark.

1/9/13, 5:49 PM
Revenant ayon kay ...

If Kinski *wasn't* a sex-crazed narcissistic wack job I'd really like to know why he put so much effort into convincing the public he was one.

I'm suspicious of any of these decades-after-the-fact abuse allegations, but honestly wouldn't it be more of a shock to learn that Kinski *wasn't* an abusive father? His other daughter sued him for libel, for pity's sake.

1/9/13, 7:32 PM
Robert Cook ayon kay ...

"So it can all work out ok in the end."

Except for the abuse they suffered when young and the torment they had to endure in suffering in silence, or even as adults in trying to accomodate themselves emotionally and mentally to what happened to them.

1/9/13, 7:39 PM
William ayon kay ...

He was certainly credible when he played the part of an evil madman. Maybe it wasn't acting.

1/9/13, 8:44 PM
Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

So Aguirre wasn't so tough for him then.

1/9/13, 10:09 PM
Revenant ayon kay ...

Cook, if she suffered in silence she chose to do so.

Kinski published an autobiography painting himself as a sex fiend; it included material offensive enough that his other daughter sued him for libel.

That would have been a handy time to speak up, don't you think? Cripes, it isn't like the guy held a position of power. He was an art film actor with an international reputation as a nutcase. By waiting until a half-century after the alleged incidents -- and waiting until the accused was literally incapable of defending himself -- she critically undermines her claims.

1/9/13, 10:23 PM
D&D ayon kay ...

Wonder if you saw (heard) this ScienceFriday talk with Werner Herzog re: Science and Art.
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2013/01/when-werner-met-cormac.html

1/18/13, 4:28 PM

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