![]() ![]() He was supposedly okay - except he wasn’t. “Mama wouldn’t discuss our father’s state of mind, let alone his addictions. He bounced among law practices while savings dwindled, alcohol gushed, and - in a frenzy to disentangle from a fistful of failure - he purchased a left-wing newspaper (which he was unable to alchemize into success), and botched his first whack at suicide: Ironically, the liberal Manhattan firms were equally queasy about Crum. Her newest book, The Men in my Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan, ventures to understand the dynamics of her family by meticulously analyzing her transformation from rambunctious rebel to “recalibrated” raconteur.īorn to privilege in 1933, Bosworth was the daughter of the dashing Bartley Crum, a prosperous California attorney - until he represented the “Hollywood Ten.” Hundreds of artists were maliciously accused of colluding with communists, then rounded up by Joseph McCarthy’s thugs, blacklisted, imprisoned, and often ruined.Įventually, Crum’s alliance with them undermined his professional patina and compelled a move to New York to reassess his now precarious prospects. Patricia Bosworth is a well-regarded biographer who untangled the complicated lives of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Diane Arbus. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, when family secrets remain unexplained, they morph into fuzzy misinterpretations, lies, or myriad multi-generational mental millstones. ![]()
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