Vineyard Confidential
Being Jackie O On MV
The Untold Story (Or Bits 'n Pieces of It!)
Who was this woman, this It Girl to end all It Girls? And why should it matter? Take it from someone who never really “got” Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: she will always matter for the same mysterious reasons that Cleopatra will forever shine in our pantheon of glam girls or, going back even further, Helen of Troy, and how about Eve? Something about these femmes fascinantes, including Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn and Marilyn Monroe (oh my! those gals all stubbed up on tragic endings; does this tell us something about James Dean’s sage advice to “die young and leave a beautiful corpse”?) grabs hold of our imagination and never lets it go. This endless interest has its obsessive side: Do we believe, perhaps, at our most superstitious …
Holly Nadler
8:53 am on Saturday, August 11, 2012
Ellen, my ex Marty was from the Bronx, so that makes our son half-Bronxian! Yeah for all of us! more ›