Real goodliars surrounded Christine – before she died. They werr there when she died – and after!
In 1981 I drove up from Los Angeles and stopped by the Rosamond Gallery. I sat down on a sofa and noticed these pamphlets. I picked one up and read one. I left the gallery with shaky legs. When I got to Oakland I called up Christine. I told her how shocked I was to read about how she was forced to draw and paint in a closet with a flashlight when she was four because Rosemary only wanted me to become a famous artist…
“And after I discovered your secret, she came a whipped you with a clothes hanger.”
“Oh, that. That was written to sell my art. I wouldn’t take it so seriously. It was aimed at Rosemary, not you.”
The truth is, one of the gallery people plagerized this bio from the book and movie ‘Mommy Dearest’
When I was sixteen, my beautiful girlfriend Marilyn got angry…
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