The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History. . . There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. . . . Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.