People magazine article on Yolanda Schlessinger that quotes Shelley Herman
Joy in Virginia
arrived in my mailbox January 4). It is on page 65 for those of you
who want to check it out in the grocery store line. The byline is Alex
Tresniowski, Maureen Harrington, and VICKIE BANE. Here are some
highlights:
"Alone at the End"
"Long estranged from her daughter, Dr. Laura's mother dies
mysteriously."
"The controversial radio show host had not seen or spoken with Yolanda
Schlessinger, 77, in nearly two decades...Police discovered her
corpse, as well as the body of her beloved parrot Sweetie Pie...
Mother and daughter were on speaking terms when Laura began her rise
... to radio star. Now one of the nation's top-rated talk show hosts
with 12 milllion listeners...
"According to one account, Laura's estrangement from her mother begain
in the mid-80s. Working as an assistant in Laura's office, Lundy
refused to take a typing class. "Finally, Laura said, 'If you don't
learn to type, I can't pay you,'" recalls Rhoda Marcovitch, a
therapist and family friend who was there that day. "Lundy said,'If
you can't pay me, I have no further use for you.'" And that was it.
Lundy never even met Deryk, Laura's 17-year-old son with second
husband Lew Bishop. In recent years Laura claims to have lost track of
Lundy altogether. Yet Shelley Herman, a television writer who worked
with Laura in the 880s, says Laura "could have found her mother if she
wanted to. Why did she have to die alone?" She remembers Lundy as a
cheerful assistant who was inexplicably cut off by her daughter. "It's
interesting that Laura is always bad-mouthing her mother," says
Herman, "but Lundy never said a word about her to the press." Whatever
issues kept them apart will now, sadly, remain unresolved. In her last
years Lundy liked to dres in tasteful St. Johns outfits and drive her
Cadillac to local bridge clubs. According to someone who spent time
with her recently, she also listened to her daughter's radio show..."
Joy in Virginia
Who subscribes to that fount of scholarly journalism, People magazine!
Esti
some of her personal observations about lundy (apart from what she put
in the book). I think it was pretty classy of lundy to never
bad-mouth her dragon of a daughter but i would give anything to know
why lundy never had anything to do with laura again.
my mother and i had some big disagreements, like the time i lived with
my boyfriend for three years and to show her disapproval she did not
visit me , ever for those three years. and as much as i was annoyed i
always spent sundays with her and Dad, of course, at their house.
as annoying as i have been to my mother she has never tried to cut me
out of her life, and i have been pretty annoying.
did laura insult lundy so deeply lundy could never forgive her?
or was lundy just mean and hateful and held grudges?
i sure do hope they find who murdered lundy, DL mentioned a detective
on the case calling her at home, outraged that she was being blamed
for her mother's death, well, i just hope that detective spends his
time finding out who killed yolanda schlessinger and not worry about
the dragon lady.
Esti
joyinv...@yahoo.com (Joy in Virginia) wrote in message news:<23839531.0301...@posting.google.com>...
Mr. Red
msesti...@yahoo.com (Esti) wrote:
> thanks for the excerpts, i'll have to pick it up. i hope bane added
> some of her personal observations about lundy (apart from what she put
> in the book). I think it was pretty classy of lundy to never
> bad-mouth her dragon of a daughter but i would give anything to know
> why lundy never had anything to do with laura again.
>
> my mother and i had some big disagreements, like the time i lived with
> my boyfriend for three years and to show her disapproval she did not
> visit me , ever for those three years. and as much as i was annoyed i
> always spent sundays with her and Dad, of course, at their house.
>
> as annoying as i have been to my mother she has never tried to cut me
> out of her life, and i have been pretty annoying.
>
> did laura insult lundy so deeply lundy could never forgive her?
> or was lundy just mean and hateful and held grudges?
>
> i sure do hope they find who murdered lundy, DL mentioned a detective
> on the case calling her at home, outraged that she was being blamed
> for her mother's death, well, i just hope that detective spends his
> time finding out who killed yolanda schlessinger and not worry about
> the dragon lady.
>
> Esti
>
Is that detective story really true or did Our Ms. Laura's publicist make it up?
When you're a police investigating someone, don't you try to put the
suspect at ease?
"Who the hell is this Yolanda?"--Derky
Cheers,
Mr. Red
--
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed -- but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and
the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of
democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
--Harry Lyme (Orson Welles) in "The Third Man"
Esti
>
> Is that detective story really true or did Our Ms. Laura's publicist make it up?
>
> When you're a police investigating someone, don't you try to put the
> suspect at ease?
>
> "Who the hell is this Yolanda?"--Derky
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Mr. Red
well, there was a mention in the BH Courier about something close to
this. whoever this officer is, s/he needs to get her/his priorities
right.
Esti