said Donald Westerhazy. “We all drank too much,” said Lucinda Merrill. “It must have been the wine,” said Helen Westerhazy. “I drank too much of that claret.” —John Cheever, “The Swimmer” Mariette Hartley (actor) ABOVE ALL, I ADMIRE Mariette Hartley for her bracing, forthright honesty. This fine actress has had the courage to face in her life the anguish of an unhappy background. Mariette has spoken out so eloquently in her writing, to recovery groups, and in prisons. She talks about how she went from dark to light. How she overcame the tyranny of outward appearances that whipped a girl into shape, requiring of her impassiveness, restraint, and “the stiff upper lip.” She has told and shown others who have been abused that when the child and creative self are crimped and crippled by an environment, it is possible as an adult to widen one’s circumference and regenerate fully. Mariette is known to many for helping reclaim individuals who are abused as well as addicted—reclaim them from placidity and despair.
What do You think about The Harder They Fall (2010)?
