The Redgrave Dynasty and Perverted Politics
Just a year after Natasha Richardson, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave, met her untimely death in Quebec, Britain’s Redgrave clan gathered together once again to mourn the passing of Lynn Redgrave, the homely antiheroine of “Georgy Girl,” (1966).
F.Scott Fitzgerald famously, supposedly, once commented to Ernest Hemingway that “the rich are different from the rest of us” to which Hemingway famously and supposedly retorted, “Yes, they have more money.”
No matter the accuracy of that exchange, Fitzgerald was correct if he really said the rich are different and not just because they have more money and the same can be said of the semi-rich elite class who are different mainly because they can be. Think Queen Elizabeth II making her first trip to Ireland and failing to abjectly apologize for the atrocities England visited for centuries on the Irish people and the IMF’s Dominique Straus-Kahn visiting New York and raping a chambermaid, allegedly.
The Redgraves, Britain’s answer to America’s Barrymores, are a case in point, an acting dynasty who make and live by their own rules. If Brit author Tim Adler can be believed, the whole family are a sick, perverted, not to mention a hypocritical leftist bunch, although “hypocritical” would be a redundancy when referring to leftists and especially rich, elite leftists.
Adler’s latest book, House of Redgrave: The Secret Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty, recounts the activities of the family . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4509)
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