![]() And I think everybody, Dan, has something that they have to survive."Ĭrawford, who is now 73, speaks to me in an energetic, childlike voice filled with nervous enthusiasm. It starts out being about show business and becomes a story about identity and about the abuse of power. I'm very thrilled to be bringing this show to Manhattan!" When I ask her about the documentary, she says, "It covers a long period of time. "I'm still in Idaho right now," Crawford tells me, when I reach her by phone. She will be in New York the week of Mother's Day to perform Surviving Mommie Dearest, a show that will include a 72-minute documentary that features home movies from the 1940s. In the years since the publication of "Mommie Dearest," Christina has written several other books and she has also run a bed and breakfast in Idaho, where she now lives. After the release of the 1981 film version starring Faye Dunaway, the saga of Joan versus Christina became a campy and also genuinely frightening touchstone for a lot of people, particularly gay men who are fans of Crawford and who identify both with her and with Christina's struggle against her. ![]() ![]() Over thirty years ago, Christina Crawford wrote "Mommie Dearest," a book about her adopted mother Joan Crawford, and it has been a point of contention and controversy ever since. ![]()
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