Gorgeous actress falls from grace (and into a sanitarium), dies in 1970. Author takes her story, twists it into fiction, sells it as biography in 1977. Movie studio uses this “biography” as the basis of a biopic starring Jessica Lange in 1982.
What happens to your life when it’s been subject to what is, essentially, a cultural game of telephone? How do you decipher the original message?
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Let’s make something perfectly clear: Frances was not lobotomized.
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