According to a Closer article, she just released her memoir. She stated that Michael turned cold towards her when she demanded a raise, and often made crude jokes about women while filming. I would like to read it when it come to the library.
shareI gotta be honest. It's pretty sh*tty to write a memoir about your life, and bash the heck out of someone who isn't alive anymore in order to defend themself. It's completely classless to be honest. After finding out that the novel/film "Mommy Dearest" was complete B.S. I don't take any book that's written by anyone from hollyweird seriously. We are suppose to grow wiser as we age, and forgive everyone who mistreated us, but in order to make a buck, hollyweird doesn't care about that. I'm not saying that you have to ever like or trust people who do terrible things to you- you don't, but carrying around grudges until you die or until old age only hurts you. I've forgiven everyone who ever did anything bad to me (and some of the stuff that people did to me was awful) I forgive every one of them. I may not like them or ever want to see them again, but I forgive them. Not to say that it didn't take a LONG a$$ time to forgive some people- because it did.
shareWow! You are so much more mature and just generally better than others here! Forgive people who have done awful things to you? Sorry, but never. F them. If Grassle is telling the truth, she has every right to tell it. She has no moral obligation to keep quiet if Landon treated her like crap.
shareOkay, that's your opinion, but mine is different, and you'll have to live with that.
shareI agree, and since Landon died young, how would it make Grassle look if she aired her grievances about a man with end stage pancreatic cancer with weeks to live? I am glad that Grassle shared her experiences and I loved her book. It was a great read. Brava Karen Grassle! From other interviews I've read, Michael Landon had a very dark, and sometimes cruel side. Karen wasn't sharing anything not already well known in Hollywood.
shareEven Dean Butler has said that Michael could be edgy and had a cocky attitude. He recently said in one of the 50th anniversary blogs that when he started on Little House he was a new actor and wanted to make sure he was doing a good job. After one of his takes he went to Michael and said, "How was I? Should I do it again?" And Michael replied "How the f do I know? I've only been doing this for 20 years." And from that point on he said he knew not to question Michael. If it wasn't good, Michael would say so.
shareI kind of see your point, however, I have no problem with Grassle telling all. She was a powerless actress with no clout and she couldn't have gone up against Micheal Landon back then. Then when he died, she'd look bitter if she immediately came out with her grievances. I think it's appropriate that in her memoirs she is recounting her experiences as an actress fighting gender discrimination. And she didn't reveal anything shocking that hasn't been covered by other actresses on set with Landon.
Brava, Karen. Loved the book.
brave how?
shareBrava. Look it up, Wildboy.
shareLol ummmm, fuck no.
Waste of time.
Further proof of the dumbing down of America, with its ignorance and lack of improving oneself and maybe learning something. Too bad, Buzz.
shareWait, Im dumbed down because I dont want to do a deep dive on a pop culture tell all about a 1970s tv show?
Lmao.
Oh I just noticed you edited brave to say 'brava'
Trying to deflect, rewrite the narrative. I get it.
Hell man, why didnt you just say it was a typo in the first place? Geesh.
We really need an “edited” notice on posts so people can’t pull crap like this. He / she uses the wrong word and then when you ask about it, quietly edits and sends you back to back insulting posts like you’re the idiot.
shareDude, I wrote "brava" from the first. Just because you don't have a clue what it meant is not my prob. I never edited anything. Stop making up excuses for your ignorance and lack of education, mmkay? Maybe Ma can tutor you?
shareTotally agree. Just another disgruntled, proud s--t feminazi wacko looking for attention. If you don't believe me, look up Mediaman's review of her autobiography on Goodreads. Isn't it odd how when all these actresses' careers hit the skids, they come out with these tell-all books and interviews airing their dirty laundry and playing the victim blaming men for all their issues? It's like they can't function being outside the spotlight, so they do whatever it takes to get back into the spotlight--like the MeToo movement and the Depp vs. Heard case. It doesn't matter if the attention they get from the public is good or bad, as long as they are getting noticed. The attention serves as a temporary high but will never fulfill the longings of the soul.
If you're so victimized and oppressed, why do you wait five, ten to twenty years before coming out about your SOB stories instead of going to the police right away?
I think about those women who worked in the massage parlor with Ravi Zacharias the founder of the RZIM mission field, accepted favors from him for money and then waited until he died before stabbing his family in the back and taking down his foundation by playing the victim--now we're supposed to suddenly boycott and disregard all the good his foundation has done over the years because of what a few attractive women say on social media?
As far as Harvey Weinstein and Ravi Zacharias are concerned, I'm not saying they're saints or that they did everything right but heck, I really don't know what I'd do if I were a wealthy successful billionaire businessman and had tons of beautiful women in my face trying to get my attention about this and that. I'm not saying I would fall but most men would and to say you wouldn't be tempted in that situation would be EXTREMELY DISHONEST. You have to understand the human condition--we crave attention and validation from others and wealth and power just brings it out more.
Bottom line: I don't have a dog in these fights.
Bottom line: Looks like Mr. Sprague has been reincarnated and hasn't changed one iota. Got it.
shareI totally agree with Enigmaticocean.
shareGrassle did the television game show tour during the years she appeared on LHOTP. The impression I got was that she did not have immense enthusiasm for the show and in some ways not a good grasp of what was happening on the show in terms of her character. That her character was the put upon mother and the others in the family cried "Ma" to. Maybe this somewhat soured Landon on Grassle but not enough to fire her or not renew her contract.
shareNicole C. Mullen had an abusive first marriage before she became a famous contemporary singer. But she never gives his name when mentioning him in her interviews out of respect for him and his new family's privacy. She said on the Cece Winans YouTube blog "He was troubled and damaged and had a hard childhood and took his frustrations out on me physically and emotionally. But after we divorced, he finally got the help he needed. So there was enough love left in my heart--not to stay in the relationship--but to forgive him--because I didn't believe he deserved to be punished forever for our failed marriage. It's been thirty years. He's dead now and I still don't give his name for the sake of his family."
Now THAT'S an honorable woman for you!
Just about everyone has experienced having something said about them that was absolutely not true. Things like this have to read with at least some skepticism.
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