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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • …And those dynamics included the shame the victim endured, and the powerlessness when set against one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars.

    It happened 70 years ago, and they kept it in the family-- nothing but trouble would have come for them bringing it up during Natalie’s life (we still weren’t all that enlightened on victim’s rights in '81). Lana Wood came forward with it in the wake of MeToo. It’s pointless to bring up “corroborating evidence” now; almost everyone in that orbit is dead by now, and Natalie’s been dead for 45 years. Why would Lana Wood lie about it?

    I don’t mean to chastise. Natalie Wood didn’t exactly have good luck with men, and it’s a damn shame that the thought is out there that somehow Lana Wood’s accusation is weakened by the lack of proof after 70 years. She’s the only one left who could possibly tell the tale, and after all this time it deserved to be told. I can only think that she felt a great injustice had never been addressed, and if she didn’t do it, it would never happen. Kirk Douglas did not deserve her taking that secret to the grave.

    Except for sci-fi movies, the 50s totally sucked.